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January 26, 2007
Scientologists Resort to Fred Phelps Tactics
Posted by Dave Blount at January 26, 2007 12:01 PM
Borrowing tactics from the bizarre cult that calls itself the Westboro Baptist Church, Scientologists chose the day of James Alenson's funeral to stage a protest against the psychiatric drugs prescribed to John Odgren, a teenager with a form of autism who is suspected of stabbing Alenson to death.
The Church of Scientology disapproves of the medications used to treat psychiatric disorders, possibly because they might cure people of being nutty enough to become Scientologists.
Locals didn't take kindly to the protests. One passing motorist yelled at the kooks:
Have you ever seen a schizophrenic off his drugs? Obviously not.
But they have if they watch Oprah:
Tom Cruise, the Christ of Scientology.
On a tip from V the K.
