Three U.S. congressmen and a high-ranking government official gathered this week to praise a man heralded for his morals and leadership. That man is L. Ron Hubbard and Texas Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, Indiana Republican Rep. Dan Burton, Illinois Democratic Rep. Danny Davis and Liz Gibson, Senior Program Manager at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, gathered to celebrate his legacy.
While European countries have either banned or prosecuted Scientology as a criminal enterprise and Hubbard was pursued by various criminal investigations and civil litigants, the VIPs joined in the opening of the new D.C. office (for full disclosure, I was invited to visit the opening of the headquarters but declined).
Jackson Lee declared “I want to thank L. Ron Hubbard for recognizing that courage is not rewarded but it is valued. And to be able to have the wonderment of people coming together and ensuring that people come together for peace. That’s what I see in the Church, that you have come together for peace. I welcome and support that,” she said.
Notably, both Burton and Davis praised the church’s campaign on child medication even though critics charge that this is an outgrowth of Hubbard’s hatred for psychiatry and psychology.
Many are likely to view this high-level support as problematic. Yet, even mainstream churches like the Catholic Church have been the subject of criminal and civil claims. Should these members be criticized for support of the Scientology record while others appear at other religious sites, including the support for faith-based politics and programs by the last four presidents?
Source: Daily Caller
mon dieux!
that was not the video I meant to post….OOPS!!!!!
but it’ll do….
707 –
This is the list that came from the Moonies – as a defense some of these people claim they were not there & others claim they only attended a banquet and knew nothing of a coronation. I have seen pictures of HW & Barbra Bush at this event and several other political notables but at the moment I don’t remember which ones. Given that the guy was a crank, a charlatan and a hard-core wing nut it is really surprising to see the spread of this list:
CONGRESSMAN DANNY DAVIS (D-IL)
CONGRESSMAN CURT WELDON (R-PA)
CONGRESSMAN ROSCOE BARTLETT (R-MD
CONGRESSMAN HAROLD FORD JR. (D-TN)
US SENATOR MARK DAYTON (D-MN)
CONGRESSMAN PHIL CRANE (R-IL)
CONGRESSMAN SANFORD BISHOP (D-GA)
HOUSE SPEAKER DENNIS HASTERT (R-IL)
CONGRESSMAN CHRIS CANNON (R-UT)
US SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM (R-SC)
CONGRESSMAN CHARLIE RANGEL (D-NY)
CONGRESSMAN TOM DAVIS (R-VA)
CONGRESSMAN ELIJAH CUMMINGS (D-MD)
CONGRESSWOMAN EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON (D-TX)
BarkinDog
1, September 17, 2012 at 4:29 am
I was going to attend but I had to attend a meeting on Remulak. Whoops, sorry, my home country– France. We are from France. Come Beldor, we are late for meeting.
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aha! I knew it….Riff Raff!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rtkdo7bOmJc&feature=share&list=PLDB30C1AD23326671
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Had Joseph Smith been born 100 years later he would be known as L Ron Hubbard.
And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a Virgin Mary, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter…. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away [with] all this artificial scaffolding.
~Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, 11 April 1823, as quoted by E. S. Gaustad, “Religion,” in Merrill D. Peterson, ed., Thomas Jefferson: A Reference Biography, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1986, p. 287.
Seems some still cling to the scaffolding.
No more money or tax exemptions for any religions. Everyone thinks that their religion is the ultimate truth and unfortunately many of those same people try to force that ultimate truth down other peoples throats often with my tax dollars. I sick of it, aren’t you?
In answer to your question if both the Republican and Democratic parties can embrace Cardinal Dolan an outspoken and high profile leader of an unapologetic Catholic Church that seeks to denigrate and control women and sees the pedophilia scandal as nothing more than anti Catholic bias how can anyone attack these folks no matter how crazy they seem. One person’s religion is another person’s blasphemy and we know how that plays out.
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That is the reason for all of it. Charlatan is the kindest discription of these folks.
Dan Burton and Sheila Jackson Lee could do a remake of the Odd Couple.
Did someone say party…… I’m still looking for the vial of pool water tom Cruise swan in….
Some people are just really, really, stupid…..
Frankly,
Got an attendance list? Wantta poll and see how many left with stars in their eyes and dreams of their own coronation to be. “Is now the right time to start MY own religion in the desert some place.
This reminds me of the time all those pols attended the coronation of Rev Moon – IN THE SENATE OFFICE BUILDING.
http://www.salon.com/2004/06/21/moon_7/
Some of these morons should not be allowed out unattended let alone in the halls of power.
The media, congress, and the movie “The Master” competing for the best story teller.
Put some popcorn on the barbie mate.
Lotta,
1. What’s your opinion on TM?
2. How much does it cost there?
I was going to attend but I had to attend a meeting on Remulak. Whoops, sorry, my home country– France. We are from France. Come Beldor, we are late for meeting.
If I had a nickle for every religious charlatan lauded, followed, feted, quoted, and curried by a politician… well, suffice it to say that my retirement would be more comfortable. 🙂
Wow…………. Immediately send these people to the Planet Xenu…….
Forgive the spelling errors: investagation, wil, policians, suffuciently.
Cosmetology class is closed because a boy attending “might” be gay?
The KKK is planning to erect a status in honor of their founder on public land?
Politiians act as if it is reasonable to laud a deceased “con artist,” whose program brainwashes its people, for being a “moral leader.” Maybe and Jack Abramoff and Bernie Madoff will be next.
Why does it seem that every day it is not only the weather that is changing radically and not necessarily for the best.
This sounds like a bad April Fool’s joke or some one has been a little heavy handed with the pot in the brownies. Scientology has been under investagation by this government for ages. It has been called a “criminal enerprise” by some nations and a “scam” by others. But our policians want to praise L. Ron Hubbard, the sci-fi writer who created a cult around a “superior people” who ostensibly live on another planet and wil let us joint them if we pay enough bucks for courses to suffuciently “enlighten us” to participate in their knowledge, wisdom, and superiority. This is the guy who is being highly praised for being a “moral leader.” Where the Kool-Aid?!
Sheila Jackson Lee is the Michelle Bachmann of the left. There is no reason why she has any influence in the Democratic caucus.
Wow! I hope the refreshments were worth it, because showing up there was a stupid mistake. Disgusting.