Font is Times New Roman throughout. Font sizes are marked. Margins are 0.6". Quoted sections are indented. Page is full-justification. [32 pt. bold] GAY RIGHTS AND SCIENTOLOGY [12 pt. bold] The Church of Scientology has officially determined that gays are "perverts" who are both "quite physically ill," and "extremely dangerous to society." The Church of Scientology teaches that such "aberration is contagious," and that toleration of such "perversion" is "extremely bad for society." The Church has an answer. Gays can either be "quarantine[d]...to avoid the contagion" and "uniformly institutionalized," or they can be forced to undergo Church "processing." If all else fails, the Church of Scientology offers a final solution: gays can be "dispose[d] of . . .quietly and without sorrow." [12 pt.] In the book entitled Dianetics, The Modern Science of Mental Health, L. Ron Hubbard, the Founder of the Church of Scientology, wrote: [I] "The sexual pervert (and by this term Dianetics, to be brief, includes any and all forms of deviation in dynamic two such as homosexuality, lesbianism, sexual sadism, etc., and all down the catalog of Ellis and Krafft-Ebing) is actually quite ill physically. Perversion, as an illness, has so many manifestations that it must be spread through the entire gamut of classes 1 to 5 above. Overdevelopment of the sexual organs, underdevelopment, seminal inhibition or magnification, etc., are found in one pervert, some in another. And the sum of it is that the pervert is always a very ill person in one way or another, whether he is conscious of it or not. He is very far from culpable for his condition, but he is also so far from normal and so extremely dangerous to society that the tolerance of perversion is as thoroughly bad for society as punishment for it." 1 [12 pt.] L. Ron Hubbard and the Church of Scientology have determined the behavioral characteristics of gays and lesbians, as well. In the book entitled Science of Survival, Prediction of Human Behavior, Hubbard established a "tone scale" for classifying individuals and evaluating human behavior. The tone scale ranges from -3 at the bottom (insanity and death), to +4 at the top (MEST Clear, achieved by expensive Scientology training. MEST stands for "Matter, Energy, Space and Time.") According to Hubbard, "perverts," such as homosexuals, fall at 1.1 on the tone scale, the level of "covert hostility": [I] "At 1.1 on the tone scale we enter the area of the most vicious reversal of the second dynamic2. Here we have promiscuity, perversion, sadism, and irregular practices. . . . He is the harlot, the pervert, the unfaithful wife, free love, easy marriage and quick divorce, and general sexual disaster." 2 [12 pt.] Scientology, and its Founder, L. Ron Hubbard, teach that one should not, and cannot, trust a gay or lesbian "1.1 pervert." To be more precise: [I] "The person may claim to love others and to have the good of others as his foremost interest; yet, at the same moment, he works, unconsciously or otherwise, to injure or destroy the lives and reputations of people and also to destroy property." 3 [12 pt.] "Covert hostility" is described as follows: [I] "At 1.1, we have lying, to avoid real communication. * * * Here is the level of covert hostility, the most dangerous and wicked level on the tone scale. Here is the person who smiles while he inserts a knife blade between your vertebrae. * * * Here is the insincere flatterer who yet awaits only a moment of unguardedness to destroy. * * * This is the level of the pervert, the homosexual, the turncoat." 4 [12 pt.] For Hubbard and the Church of Scientology, the danger posed by gay and lesbian "1.1" "perverts" cannot be underestimated, and given the danger posed by lesbian and gay "1.1" "perverts," society is faced with only one choice if it is to survive: [I] "No social order which desires to survive dares overlook its stratum 1.1's. No social order will survive which does not remove these people from its midst." 5 [12 pt.] There is no room for gay and lesbian "1.1" "perverts" in society, if Hubbard is to be believed. Indeed, Scientology looks forward to the day when only individuals meeting Hubbard's standards will be given civil rights: [I] "Perhaps at some distant date only the unaberrated person will be granted civil rights before the law. Perhaps the goal will be reached at some future time when only the unaberrated person can attain to and benefit from citizenship. These are desirable goals and would produce a marked increase in the survival ability and happiness of man." 6 [12 pt.] Since Dianetics was first published in 1950, perhaps "some distant date" is ... today? Who will determine who is "aberrated" and who is not? Obviously, the Church of Scientology thinks it should. To Hubbard and the Church of Scientology, the solution to the problem of lesbian and gay "1.1" "perverts" is a simple one: [I] "Such people should be taken from the society as rapidly as possible and uniformly institutionalized; for here is the level of the contagion of immorality, and the destruction of ethics;" 7 [12 pt.] On the other hand, the Church of Scientology offers an alternative: [I] "The only answers would seem to be the permanent quarantine of such persons from society to avoid the contagion of their insanities and the general turbulence which they bring to any order, thus forcing it lower on the scale, or processing such persons until they have attained a level on the tone scale which gives them value." 8 [12 pt.] Hubbard explains that: [I] "with an effective science to handle the problem, a society which would continue to endure perversion and all its sad and sordid effects doesn't deserve to survive." 9 [12 pt.] Thus, the Church offers a choice. Gay and lesbian "1.1" "perverts" can avoid being quarantined or institutionalized by simply undergoing Church "processing" to raise their tone level so that they are no longer "perverts," but instead have "value." Finally, for all of those aberrated persons below 2.0 on his Tone Scale, L. Ron Hubbard envisions two alternative final solutions: [I] "There are only two answers for the handling of people from 2.0 down on the Tone Sale, neither one of which has anything to do with reasoning with them or listening to their justification of their acts. The first is to raise them on the Tone Scale by unentrubulating some of their theta by any one of the three valid processes. The other is to dispose of them quietly and without sorrow." 10 [10 pt. bold] Quotes above constitute fair use and are taken from: Science of Survival, Prediction of Human Behavior, and Dianetics, The Modern Science of Mental Health 1 Dianetics, Book Two, Chapt. 5, at pgs. 120-21 2 Science of Survival, Book One, Chapt. 18, at 128-29 3 Science of Survival, Book One, Chapt. 8, at 68. 4 Science of Survival, Book 1, Chapt. 13, at 101 - 102. 5 Science of Survival, Book 1, Chapt. 13, at 103. 6 Dianetics, Book 3, Chapt. 10, at pgs. 455-56. 7 Science of Survival, Book 1, Chapt. 13, at 102. 8 Science of Survival, Book 1, Chapt. 21, at 145. 9 Dianetics, Book 2, Chapt. 5, at pgs. 121-22. 10 Science of Survival, at 170-71 Page numbers may differ in various editions, due to gradual changes being made to the original works of L.Ron Hubbard. For more information, please see: http://www.xenu.net