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Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard had a threesome with author Robert Heinlein and Heinlein's wife.
The Atlantic magazine: A Famous Science Fiction Writer's Descent Into Libertarian Madness
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118048/william-pattersons-robert-heinlein-biography-hagiography
io9: How Robert Heinlein Went from Socialist to Right-Wing Libertarian
http://io9.com/how-robert-heinlein-went-from-socialist-to-libertarian-1588357827
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I posted the above NOT to be homophobic, but as possibly relevant to L. Ron Hubbard's and Scientology;'s views of homosexuality and gay rights. For example, Hubbard's evaluation of gays in Dianetics, gays being 1.1 on the Tone Scale in Science of Survival, etc.
The Atlantic magazine: A Famous Science Fiction Writer's Descent Into Libertarian Madness
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118048/william-pattersons-robert-heinlein-biography-hagiography
io9: How Robert Heinlein Went from Socialist to Right-Wing Libertarian
http://io9.com/how-robert-heinlein-went-from-socialist-to-libertarian-1588357827
Excerpt:
EDITED TO ADD:In discovering his midlife vocation as a science-fiction writer, Heinlein was aided immeasurably by his second wife Leslyn, who he married in 1932 (an earlier marriage in 1929 fizzled after a year). Both were socialists and sexual radicals—it was an open marriage with each having many lovers—and in the 1930s both were leading figures in the grassroots movement End Poverty in California (EPIC), working to push the Democratic party to the left. When Heinlein started selling science fiction in 1939, Leslyn served as his un-credited collaborator and story-editor ...
Heinlein's leftwing politics got him blacklisted from the Navy, which didn't want his services even during World War II when the military was so desperate for trained recruits that they found office jobs for disabled soldiers. Instead he worked as a civilian engineer in Philadelphia, helping to design the high-altitude pressure suit, a precursor to the astronaut suit. In 1944, Heinlein met Lieutenant Virginia Gerstenfeld, and after the war tried to bring her into his house as part of a ménage à trios. Gerstenfeld accepted but her stay with the Heinlein's was brief and stormy. This wasn't the first love triangle in the Heinlein residence (they had earlier been in a consensual threesome with L. Ron Hubbard), but Leslyn found Virginia threatening so the marriage collapsed in 1947. Heinlein and Gerstenfeld wed the following year, a marriage that would also be open.
I posted the above NOT to be homophobic, but as possibly relevant to L. Ron Hubbard's and Scientology;'s views of homosexuality and gay rights. For example, Hubbard's evaluation of gays in Dianetics, gays being 1.1 on the Tone Scale in Science of Survival, etc.
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