======== Subject: Toronto Picket Report From: Velcro Kitty Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 22:40:33 GMT Message-ID: <384999A2.6D2317CF@home.com> Toronto Picket Report - December 4, 1999 Arrived in the afternoon. Quite a deflated bunch of picketers. Picketer, Mike "I'm-on-drugs-but-not-Prozac-it-doesn't-work" Argue was not yelling obscenities at the women today. Lost their leader, Gregg Hagglund to the Clearwater picket. Perhaps Gregg got a nerf sign for the picket there. Barclay does not want to admit he is part of a group - "We're individuals and have our own beliefs" yet this is EXACTLY what Hagglund said to me. Hagglund was seen yelling at you Barclay in the parking lot. Not a group? You know that a human rights' complaint can't be lodged against you if you're part of a group. Hey, same signs, same flyers - a group - works for me. A complaint in the morning about one of the picketers's flyers. Barclay and Android assert that they "ran out" and had to photocopy more. From the Globe & Mail (Canada's National Newspaper) -- Professor Dawson, Associate Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies at University of Waterloo, Ontario: "Well-educated, middle-class people often want a kind of religion that will brin gbenefits right now and in a reasonable practical way," says Prof. Dawson, of them. Among these people, he adds, the emphasis is on person religious experience, making one's own choices, wariness of religious "authorities" and repairing the mind-body separation that traditional churches preached. Prof. Dawson believes it is the movements that cater to such people that have the momentum now. 'If I had to bet on any religion that's still going to be around in 100 years," he declares, "I would say Church of Scientology.'"