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RE: virus: Scientology in California schools
« on: 2005-05-03 09:58:32 » |
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[Blunderov] Very bad medicine.
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Florida: Scientology in Public Schools
Scientologists are fiercely opposed to psychiatry and the idea that
mental illnesses have physical, biological causes. This is due to their
religious doctrines and, now, it seems that they are trying to have
those doctrines enshrined in how Florida public schools deal with mental
illness.
A St. Petersburg Times editorial explains that the law sponsored by
Tampa Republican Sen. Victor Crist and Miami Beach Republican Rep.
Gustavo Barreiro would:
...try to keep students from ever getting psychiatric treatment, even
those who might be contemplating suicide. The bills would require that
any mental health treatment become part of the student's permanent
record and that schools tell parents that mental illness cannot be
diagnosed through a medical test.
Crist tries to discount the role of Scientology in his bill by
suggesting he is concerned with psychiatrists who too often turn to
medication. His bill, however, is directed not at improving mental
health medicine but at belittling it.
"No matter how far we have come in understanding depression as a
biochemical disease, there is still a certain amount of shame attached
to it," says Donna Sicilian, president of the Florida Association of
School Social Workers. "Bills like these, particularly with the wording
that was chosen, perpetuate that."
At the behest of the Christian Right, the GOP has been battling the
science of evolution for years. Are Republican politicians now going to
start battling the science of mental illness at the behest of
Scientologists? Is the GOP for sale to any religious fringe group that
comes along and dangles a few votes or donations in front of them or is
the GOP merely interested in supporting pseudoscience and superstition
regardless of who benefits from it?
[Blunderov] Did we have this yet?
"Who is Keith Henson? And why is Scientology after him?"
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[Blunderov]Or this?
"Scientology is both immoral and socially obnoxious...It is corrupt,
sinister and dangerous. It is corrupt because it is based on lies and
deceit"
Justice Latey, ruling in the High Court of London
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