![]() Haggis was prominent in both Scientology and Hollywood, two communities that often converge. I refuse to consent.” He concluded, “I hereby resign my membership in the Church of Scientology.” Our public association with that hate-filled legislation shames us.” Haggis wrote, “Silence is consent, Tommy. As Haggis saw it, the San Diego church’s “public sponsorship of Proposition 8, which succeeded in taking away the civil rights of gay and lesbian citizens of California-rights that were granted them by the Supreme Court of our state-is a stain on the integrity of our organization and a stain on us personally. ![]() Before the 2008 elections, a staff member at Scientology’s San Diego church had signed its name to an online petition supporting Proposition 8, which asserted that the State of California should sanction marriage only “between a man and a woman.” The proposition passed. “For ten months now I have been writing to ask you to make a public statement denouncing the actions of the Church of Scientology of San Diego,” Haggis wrote. ![]() On August 19, 2009, Tommy Davis, the chief spokesperson for the Church of Scientology International, received a letter from the film director and screenwriter Paul Haggis. Asked how high he got in Scientology’s levels of study, Haggis said, “All the way to the top.” Photograph by Mary Ellen Mark
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