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June 12, 2007 | celebrity | editor | 0 Comments
MSNBC says that some gay fans are calling for a boycott of the movie "Hairspray", because it will suck and they have taste it's star John Travolta is a devout scientologist, and scientology doesn't believe in the gay:
“Travolta, a prominent Scientologist, has no business reprising an iconic gay role, given his [religion’s] stance on gay issues,” notes Kevin Naff, managing editor of the gay-oriented Washington Blade. “It’s well known that Scientology rejects gays and lesbians as members and even operates reparative therapy clinics to ‘cure’ homosexuality.”
In 1951, Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard said this about homosexuality, which he then considered a form of sexual perversion:
"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; here is the fodder which secret police organizations use for their filthy operations. One of the most effective measures of security that a nation threatened by war could take would be rounding up and placing in a cantonment, away from society, any 1.1 individual who might be connected with government, the military, or essential industry; since here are people who, regardless of any record of their family's loyalty, are potential traitors, the very mode of operation of their insanity being betrayal. In this level is the slime of society, the sex criminals, the political subversives, the people whose apparently rational activities are yet but the devious writings of secret hate."
In 1967, Hubbard basically said "I was just kidding" about this stance, but Scientology's official position on homosexuality is still not very clear. What is clear? Jessica Alba's crush on me, for one.