Texas Takes Steps To Ban Church Of Scientology From State
This is the most positive thing I have read in days. Finally words put to action. The above screen shot represents the filed paperwork by a Galveston delegate for the RNC to have the Church of Scientology’s status as a religion stripped, more below:
REPUBLICAN PARTY CONVENTION RESOLUTION PASSED MARCH 29, 2008!
On March 29th, a Houston Anon made history. This brave Anon, a Galveston county delegate to the RNC, braved a Republican National Convention policy meeting and presented a proposal to get the Church of Scientology’s status as a religion revoked. This would potentially mean stripping the tax exemption as well. This will need to work it’s way up the ladder and if it makes it, it will mean that part of the Republican party’s platform will be stripping Scientology of its religious status.
Please contact your Texas Congressional Representatives to let them know about this resolution and to ask for their support in getting it passed. Every call, email, and letter counts!
This people is how change is made. First you protest and raise awareness, then you take it to the people who make laws and the two combined can not be ignored.
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That is freaking awesome. At this moment my thought are with the families and the victims who’s lives have been destroyed by this scam.
John in London, UK
Comment by John Smith — March 30, 2008 @ 6:17 pm
Hi Dawn, I received an email with this. Was the authenticity of that document confirmed? It seemed to me that the wording would have to state that the committee would be proposing legislation to declare scientology a commercial business. Only state or federal legislatures can resolve by law that a church is no longer a church.
Did anyone check with the TX RNC?
Comment by Mary McConnell — March 30, 2008 @ 6:18 pm
Not sure Mary, I hope this is legit. I was merely passing along what I received too. Whatever the specifics, the idea is a good one. I hope it is real.
Comment by D — March 30, 2008 @ 6:31 pm
It is a resolution made by a delegate at the Galveston Republican Party Convention. Here it is on You Tube http://youtube.com/watch?v=c83T8I2dKRU. I also saw it somewhere else.
“Resolution adopted this twenty-ninth day of March, 2008, at the Precinct Convention of Precinct Number 341, and/or senatorial district 11 Convention, Galveston County, Texas of the Republican Party of Texas.” It’s not party platform yet but should it make it all the way to the top it could be potentially damaging to the CoS.
Comment by Mitsu Too — March 30, 2008 @ 7:07 pm
EPIC WIN!!! Finally, I have a reason to be proud of Texas!
Now California has an example to follow!
Comment by OT666 — March 30, 2008 @ 7:26 pm
OMG!!!!
I LOVE IT!!!!!!!
EPIC WIN!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by Anonymous — March 30, 2008 @ 7:27 pm
This is great but does it need massive rewording?
My intuition says that the church’s lawyer would eat that wording for breakfast.
Comment by Anonymous — March 30, 2008 @ 7:40 pm
Damn good stuff. I don’t normally like the GOP (though I’m not an American, so it’s not like I can vote for them anyway!) but I have to give them full marks for this one!
Comment by Lexx-2 — March 30, 2008 @ 10:07 pm
Good idea, but badly worded. Scn. will point out that they do have regular Sunday services, and that they do have an official statement of faith, which is passed out on a bulletin during their “services”. It was all done carefully several decades ago so that they can pass legally as a religion. There is no “requirement” to spend $15,000. Now of course they do extract tons of money from people, but it’s all carefully worded as being “donations”.
The resolution should concentrate on the high-pressure sales tactics, and the fact that they do call auditing and courses ’services’, which all have a fixed-rate donation (fee). Whoever wrote this resolution didn’t do his or her homework very well.
Comment by cultbuster66 — March 30, 2008 @ 10:16 pm
here. (first, read the comments above)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=c0_g3g_MNm4
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7jADbuC1mD8
Comment by sowhat — March 30, 2008 @ 11:48 pm
Golly Gee, reading Glosslip, one might begin to think that the United States Internal Revenue’s decisions were subject to Texas’ approval. Whilikers ! ohh, the Lulz!
Comment by Terryeo — March 31, 2008 @ 12:40 am
mmm breakfast…
An anonymous Delegate ? No such thing.
Anonymous dupes (epic fail)
Comment by Delegate — March 31, 2008 @ 12:59 am
Texas always had more sense than the rest of america.
And PS most of anonymous members ahs epilepsy i doubt them to be responsible for that attack i smeel scientology evenb though the Cyber Action Team will move against whoever was responsible.
Comment by Anonymous — March 31, 2008 @ 2:24 am
Don’t forget that churches aren’t permitted to endorse or campaign for candidates, and there are e-mails (complete with headers establishing their origin and recipients) urging Scientologists to vote against the non-Scientologist mayoral candidate, and for their planted Scientologist candidate in the Clearwater elections.
Google it. It’s on Wikileaks.
(wagging finger) Shame, shame, Scientologist friends. You’re not allowed to doooo thaaat… Doing so will get your tax-exempt status revoked. That’s in process. Wait. You’ll see!
The FBI is looking into CoS’s stockpiles of weapons, and armed fortresses. The justice system is wise to your abusive and malicious lawsuits. The bar will soon be sanctioning your lawyers (hi guys) for sending threatening letters to peaceful protesters. And your tax documents are all over the web. (Looks like you guys are SERIOUSLY underpaid, considering receipts. Perhaps criminally so — can you say “Minimum wage”? Sure you can.) Even WISE businesses can’t fire you for resisting religious indoctrination — it’s a violation of EEOC regulations, guys!
Hi ho Terryeo and Delegate!
Can you hear that? The cracking sound, like the rupture of a dam, and water leaking through a crevice? The walls are starting to crumble.
This resolution from the Galveston Republicans is but a small step, a sign of things to come, but it will go to the state, and then the news will pick it up, and then other states will want in on it, and the flood will come…
And THEN, boys and girls, we’ll see RICO prosecutions of DM and all the lords of Scientology. Can’t wait! This is going to be interesting and highly informative!
Comment by MomAnon — March 31, 2008 @ 2:59 am
Even the non-Co$-attacking Anons agree that the Epilepsy attacks are the work of OSA seeds. In the almost-decade that Anon as a net concept has existed, no one ever intentionally posted stuff like that to Epilepsy sites. Messing with people != nearly killing them.
Comment by Dio Brando — March 31, 2008 @ 3:44 am
While excellent news, this is only the first step. This is only an initiative. Expect months, maybe years of legal processes before there’s a conclusion to this. Expect harassment. Expect lies. After all Co$ has the best (Read: Most manipulative and deceptive) lawyers in the country.
Comment by nitro2k01 — March 31, 2008 @ 4:47 am
“When will these anonymous people get a clue?” hahaha, you still fail. you think anonymous is a group of people, maybe with a leader, right? Anonymity is one of the foundations of the internet and a freedom that everybody should be entitled to.
Comment by Anonymous — March 31, 2008 @ 6:57 am
“When will these anonymous people get a clue”?
- In not falling for the great scam of scientology, a fake religion cooked up by a drug-addled fraud that has murdered numerous people and has made and continues to make terrorist threats against individuals, companies and governments the world over
- In trying to bring the criminal misdeeds of these mobsters to light so that future would-be victims never fall into the trap of scientology and have their lives destroyed
- In doing all of the above through peaceful demonstrations and community awareness programs rather than through threats of violence or legal intimidation
.. I’d say Anon have the situation remarkably well thought out and are handling it perfectly.
Comment by Anonymous — March 31, 2008 @ 7:25 am
As much as I love this, I still hate Texas.
If Texas passed a law that required digging up L. Ron’s corpse and forcing every citizen to line up and take a turn kicking him in the ass, I’d still hate Texas.
I really fucking hate Texas.
Really.
Comment by Anonymous — March 31, 2008 @ 7:32 am
GLORY HALLELUJAH………..keep up the great work Anonymous!! One state at a time and then the world. It will be eradicated!!
Comment by Judy — March 31, 2008 @ 7:35 am
nit pics - COS has this covered, so it is not going any place
1) The Church of Scientology does have a creed, published back in the early 50s
2) They do have free Sunday services, together with a minister’s book which has the weekly readings and auditing for the free services.
re: the comments on the anonymous attack on an epilepsy site, there are transcripts of the chan board chats doing this, congratulating themselves on slashdot
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=504340&cid=22909424
Comment by dave — March 31, 2008 @ 8:40 am
the first statement in this resolution is off - they do, in fact, have a statement of faith. Though not a statement of “Faith” - as i interpret this to mean large-C Jesus Christ Christian Faith - but nonetheless, they have a document called the Factors which spells out their beliefs/faith/sense of the almighty. The most important part of that resolution is the third part, which cannot be disputed. But articles 1 and 2 are higly debatable - there are Scientology worship services, though most members don’t attend, from what I hear - and a lawyer would have no trouble knocking those arguments down.
Comment by genevieve — March 31, 2008 @ 8:53 am
But who or what do they worship?
Comment by Anonymous — March 31, 2008 @ 9:43 am
Seriously?…you’re going to try and ban a religion? Only in Texas. Bigots. Hope you ban christians next.
Comment by Anon — March 31, 2008 @ 10:17 am
The officials in charge of spearheading this better make certain they don’t have any skeletons in the closet. They will be considered Suppressive Persons in the eyes of the Scieno lawyers and officials and will be Fair Game.
No way in hell California ever acts against Scientology. Never.
Comment by Barbara McQueen — March 31, 2008 @ 10:18 am
DAWN, could you possibly put this epilepsy story to rest? The same ammo OSA/RTC are using to discredit Anon contains the answers. If you read through the “transcript” http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=504340&cid=22909424 , about midway down the page you’ll find an Anon objecting to what is being done and in response is told “GB2 /XENU/ MORALFAG”. The ones responsible for the attacks (or at least for gloating about it on /b/) clearly state that they are not lumped in with the Anti-CoS Anons.
Anon is amorphous, people!
Comment by Anon, Anon, My Boyfriend's Back! — March 31, 2008 @ 11:09 am
Working on it right now.
Comment by D — March 31, 2008 @ 11:28 am
While I’d love to have Scientology’s tax-exempt status revoked, Texas is not a state I’d want to look to for leadership.
In the past decade, Texas has tried to strip tax-exempt status from a Unitarian-Universalist church and an Ethical Culture Society, on the grounds that these religions do not have a theistic system of belief.
Texas official says Unitarian church not a tax-exempt religion
Comment by Ron Newman — March 31, 2008 @ 11:38 am
This is SOOOOOO awsome. A shoutout to all the texas fags from your comrades around the world!!!
Comment by John Doe — March 31, 2008 @ 11:48 am
Banning knowledge despit how it can be disagreed with is not a solution. It is in fact oppressive.
Communists ban religions & dictators only accept religions that agree with them.
Keeping an organization that is dubious under scrutiny is an option.
Prove how Scientology is alleged to have been destructive in a court of law as is the democratic way.
Surely Texas is not an oppressive state.
Comment by Moneen — March 31, 2008 @ 12:00 pm
Re #29 - why did you find it necessary to insult gay people in this forum?
Comment by Ron Newman — March 31, 2008 @ 12:08 pm
Few points:
a) The suffix “-fag” can be attached to any noun or adjective, and does not (necessarily) indicate hostility to gays. I wouldn’t go so far as to call it an “honorific” that some languages have, but that would be a rough approximation of its intended use.
b) The texas resolution does NOT ban scientology. It reclassifies it as a business, which in its current form as practiced by the CST and RTC it is–a Multi-Level Marketing scam, aka MLM. Should the CoS reform into a more open, transparent, and less-money-oriented form they could argue it, but at the moment I guaran-damn-tee any noise coming from the CoS will not seek to counter these claims but seek to attack the people supporting the resolution. ‘never discuss scientology, just attack the attacker,’ etc.
Comment by Rick A — March 31, 2008 @ 1:24 pm
When will we realize that the state shouldn’t recognize any religion. No organization should receive tax exempt status. Problem solved.
Comment by Jason — March 31, 2008 @ 2:30 pm
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Comment by Anonymous — March 31, 2008 @ 5:09 pm
“Banning knowledge despit how it can be disagreed with is not a solution. It is in fact oppressive.”
Killing people and enriching your cult leader is wrong no matter how you slice it.
… attack the attacker … yawn …
Comment by Lisa McPherson — March 31, 2008 @ 8:22 pm
“Banning knowledge despit how it can be disagreed with is not a solution. It is in fact oppressive.”
The goal is to free the knowledge. Educate the masses.
Comment by Anon — March 31, 2008 @ 11:21 pm
Win. So much win.
The Republicans rock…for now.
Comment by David — March 31, 2008 @ 11:44 pm
#31, Fag, in anon-speak, isn’t an insult and it’s tagged onto everything. Someone from Texas is a texasfag, someone who isn’t anonymous but rather goes by a name is a namefag, someone who likes Japanese animation is an animiefag, and someone who is gay is a gayfag.
But it’s not used as an insult or in reference to homosexuals. A faggot was a bundle of sticks before it was a cigarette, before it was an insult. Language changes and evolves.
The people who hold on to past insulting uses for words rather than letting them change, are more at fault for continued harm caused by those words than the people who use them in new ways.
Oh, and I’m sick and tired of scilons picking on communists! Listen here McCarthy, the fifties called, they want their red-menace back.
Comment by Anonymous — April 1, 2008 @ 8:23 am
Texas has always cared for the People when Branch Banking first came to Texas, Texas tried to stop it wanting to keep the Small Bank Owners from being squeezed out. Texas is a Great State.
Comment by judy — April 2, 2008 @ 8:10 pm
i am from Texas and i just added an a to my post name because there is appearantly another judy posting in here. God Bless All.
Comment by judy a — April 2, 2008 @ 8:12 pm
Wow… once again i have to stand up for a my religion (of my choice) from a bunch of unknowns who claim to know everything (about MY religion) and pass judgement as such.
I thank you, for reminding me that their are those who would hate me for no other reason but the religious choice i have made… thanks a**holes.
Comment by James27 — April 4, 2008 @ 7:45 pm
Dear James27,
Anonymous does not hate you for your choice of religion. Anonymous fights the wrong that the Chirch of Scientology is doing to it’s critics and followers.
I do hope you must never suffer under them and always question their methods.
Remember: Knowledge is free!
Comment by Anonymous — April 9, 2008 @ 5:50 am
The scientologists are the biggist cult around their as evil as those secular humanists i mean scientology is a dagerous new age cult
Comment by Birdzilla — April 9, 2008 @ 3:44 pm
I’m not surprised this happened in a red state. Gotta figure they aren’t going to tolerate some pseudo-religion down in Texas. California, on the other hand….
Comment by Jason — April 15, 2008 @ 8:26 pm
Next up… Christianity!
We can dream, at least….
Comment by Sam — April 15, 2008 @ 10:01 pm
Xenu frowns upon yall’s shenanigans!
Comment by Ron H. — April 16, 2008 @ 12:43 am
Just curious, why does everyone want to get rid of Christianity?
Anywho, congrats Texas.
We need to get that kind of support in San Francisco.
Comment by Anonymous — April 16, 2008 @ 2:25 am
48 - Because it’s trendy, pretty much.
Anyway, glad to see this is done. They may be a religion, but they’re also a business - they charge money for their services, which they claim have value to you. Definition of business, no?
There’s one easy way to avoid this, of course - stop charging for the religious services, and just get by on donations.
Comment by Ben — April 16, 2008 @ 5:31 am
Anyone could write that “resolution” who knows the jargon and format. Unless you show who wrote and signed it, it means nothing. It’s a hoax and will never be part of any Congressional agenda. Watch and see.
Comment by Wiseman — April 22, 2008 @ 2:21 pm
There are plenty of situational bigots here in Texas, but this is going in the right direction. As far as I am concerned all organized religions should pay their responsible share of taxes. In Germany this “church” is banned and considered a cult. Why give others preferential treatment? Tax them all.
Comment by Mac — May 9, 2008 @ 11:30 am