In 2004, Paul Haggis won Academy Awards as screenwriter and directer of ‘Crash’ (hard to believe isn’t it) but he’s worked in Hollywood since the early 80s and been a Scientologist almost as long. Until this weekend at least, when he very publicly quit in a long and angry letter (read the whole thing here) posted on the Hollywood Reporter.
Haggis said he was furious that Scientology endorsed Prop 8 banning gay marriage in California, but the final straw was watching the head of Scientology on CNN denying that they force members to alienate friends and family who aren’t members. Haggis wrote…
“The interview lasted maybe ten minutes – it was just you and the newscaster. And in it I saw you deny the church’s policy of disconnection. You said straight-out there was no such policy, that it did not exist.
I was shocked. We all know this policy exists.
You might recall that my wife was ordered to disconnect from her parents because of something absolutely trivial they supposedly did twenty-five years ago when they resigned from the church. This is a lovely retired couple, never said a negative word about Scientology to me or anyone else I know – hardly raving maniacs or enemies of the church. In fact it was they who introduced my wife to Scientology.”
I would be pretty scared right now if I were Paul Haggis. Hell I’d be scared if I were Paul Haggis and Paul Haggis was a 20-story dragon. Scientologists are god damn crazy. But this is his problem now. Also “his problem” is that he’s a 60-year-old bald ginger, and I didn’t want him fuggin up my sexy website.
So instead of pictures of him, here’s 34 pictures of girls kissing (26 more starting here). Some of these are amazing. I can’t stop staring. In fact my house has been on fire for over an hour. I should probably see what’s going on with that.
