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ABC News, January 5, 2017
ABC 20/20: Exploiting bigotry to make a buck
You have made a serious ethical mistake, believing that people consider this kind of attack inspiring. READ MORE
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ABC News, January 5, 2017
You have made a serious ethical mistake, believing that people consider this kind of attack inspiring. READ MORE
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ABC News, January 5, 2017
Why don’t you do a story that has some originality and feature actual currently practicing Scientologists and find out why people practice the religion to begin with? READ MORE
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ABC News, January 5, 2017
I am not sure who your reporters have been talking to, but clearly it has not been myself, my wife or any of our many Scientologist friends with bright, beautiful, amazing children who have only benefited from Scientology. READ MORE
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ABC News, January 5, 2017
Please do your homework and research in truth. Seek information from those who would know about children and the religion of Scientology, the parents. READ MORE
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ABC News, January 5, 2017
I am writing regarding 20/20 and the inappropriate and outright preposterous accusations against the Church of Scientology regarding children. READ MORE
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ABC News, January 5, 2017
My wife and I never worried about our son becoming connected with people who would steer him in the wrong direction. READ MORE
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ABC News, January 5, 2017
It has come to my attention that a group of Scientology apostates are going to appear on 20/20 with a show intentionally designed to attack and create hate toward the religion she was formerly a member of. READ MORE
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ABC News, January 4, 2017
This show you’re about to air has hurtful, wrong information about my religion. It’s that type of incorrect information propagated that will result in wrongfully targeted hate and bias. READ MORE
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ABC News, January 4, 2017
I had met Leah Remini several times and worked with her on one occasion and that from what I personally observed, she was someone who would do or say almost anything for personal profit. READ MORE
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ABC News, January 4, 2017
Do not malign my religion and spread lies about our treatment of children. READ MORE
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ABC News, January 4, 2017
I can’t even believe that a respectable organization like ABC would consider airing or even creating a program that outright attacks a valid religion in the United States of America. READ MORE
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ABC News, January 4, 2017
The Scientology children that I know, including my son, are raised to have an ethical presence and to not be bullied. READ MORE
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ABC News, January 4, 2017
Your network has decided to air yet another anti-Scientology piece, and I’m not only outraged, you’ve made me—for the first time ever—genuinely concerned for the safety of my family. READ MORE
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ABC News, January 4, 2017
When did you decide that ratings take priority over truth? When did you decide that spreading controversy, religious bigotry and outright lies to inflame viewers was part of your job? Are you a catchpenny tabloid or a balanced... READ MORE
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ABC News, January 4, 2017
If you slander this upbringing at all, it is an act of bullying, bigotry and straight-up slander, based on lies and hate. READ MORE
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ABC News, January 4, 2017
We, as a group (Scientologists), abhor bigotry, respect the religious beliefs of others, and many of us work daily to help our fellow Man. The same cannot be said of those attacking this religion. READ MORE
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ABC News, January 4, 2017
That you would attack these people, me, my group, my religion is beyond me and I will not stand for it. READ MORE
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ABC News, January 4, 2017
This program will do nothing but spread bigotry and hate amongst families and put information that is knowingly false into people’s minds. READ MORE
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ABC News, January 4, 2017
I am writing to you as the proud parent of three grown children. All of my children were raised in and with Scientology. All three of them on their own became Scientologists as teenagers. READ MORE
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ABC News, January 4, 2017
If this was a story about Jews, Muslims, African-Americans, Mormons, Catholics, LGBT, etc., would you treat it the same way? READ MORE
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ABC News, January 4, 2017
I am incensed that you would lend your name to the forwarding of such hateful lies. READ MORE
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ABC News, January 3, 2017
Scientology taught my children how to manage difficult situations, how to defend themselves without violence, how to handle bullies at school, and how to stick up for their friends. READ MORE
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ABC News, January 3, 2017
As a second-generation Scientologist and the parent of two small kids, I find this quite alarming. READ MORE
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ABC News, January 3, 2017
My family came to this country to escape religious persecution, so I find it terribly distressing to hear that you are choosing to do a biased, one-sided piece on the Church of Scientology and Scientologists. READ MORE
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ABC News, January 3, 2017
So-called responsible news organizations will run ANY story no matter how unbalanced, irresponsible or inaccurate it might be, as long as it is sensational and creates controversy READ MORE
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ABC News, January 3, 2017
Respecting the religious beliefs of others is very important in this world. Not only that, but attacking one of the fastest growing religions which can prove with statistics and facts how it is bettering and improving lives,... READ MORE
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ABC News, January 3, 2017
My parents are both artists and always believed in me and allowed me to make my own decisions on whether or not Scientology was for me. I grew up with great friends and memories of my Church. READ MORE
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ABC News, January 3, 2017
Going after our children is disgusting. You are setting up the children of Scientologists to be bullied in schools because others may not realize how one-sided and untrue your show is in its portrayal of Scientology. READ MORE
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ABC News, January 3, 2017
I am shocked that you would try to create hatred and a web of lies that will only lead to discrimination against Scientologists and their children. READ MORE
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ABC News, January 3, 2017
It is very rare that I get truly angry, but I am. When your program communicates that Scientology is harmful to children, and that as a Scientology parent I am “brainwashed” it is both an insult to my integrity as a parent,... READ MORE
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