02 Nov 2000

>http://www.newtimesla.com/issues/2000-11-02/letters.html

Elron on gays

He's not exactly a model of tolerance, kids: Cat Tebar's letter to New Times is like the pot calling the kettle black ("Tired of Mudslinging," Letters, October 12-18).

In reference to the Arthur Peese letter critical of the Church of Scientology, she writes: "More importantly in terms of human misery, intolerance of someone else's church is probably responsible for more damage than any one thing on this earth." Referring to intolerance and human misery, Ms. Tebar should reread her religious messiah's bible (L. Ron Hubbard, Dianetics, published in 1950).

The following are excerpts from said bible. Page 123: "The sexual pervert (and by this term Dianetics, to be brief, includes any and all forms of deviation in Dynamic II, such as homosexuality, lesbianism, sexual sadism, etc., and all down the catalogue of Ellis and Kraft- Ebing) is actually quite ill physically."

Page 124: "Hence the pervert, containing hundreds and hundreds of vicious engrams, has had little choice between being dead and being a pervert. But 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."

No, Ms. Tebar, the cause of misery in this world is the bigoted judgmental preaching of religions (and I use this term loosely) such as Scientology.

Tom Gibbons
Los Angeles