From the article:
"She was very upset. She was on staff for 10 years. All of our friends for the last 20 years have been only Scientologists. She's already affected by that. And she's upset that her eye doctor won't see her anymore, who was a close personal friend of ours," Meshell says, adding that the physician is a Scientologist and so, per church policy, he refuses to have anything to do with Edie now that she's a declared SP."
I have read about this sort of thing before, where a doctor or business now refuses to deliver services because the person is now declared suppressive. Isn't this known as "discrimination"? Based on religion? Religious discrimination?
Why don't 10 or 20 people get together, who have each been refused services from a Scientologost-owned business because they have been declared, and SUE these people for practicing ILLEGAL DISCRIMINATION? A nice big
national class action lawsuit that includes instances from many diffrent states.
And, really bring to light the fact that it is the Church of Scientology's own policy and actions that ENFORCE the religious discrimination?
Sure, an individual person can choose to not communicate with and help another person due to "religious affiliation", but it is entirely NOT OKAY for a business to do so. And THAT is exactly what any Scientology business person does when he or she refuses further service to a now declared ex-Scientologist.
It is sort of "reverse discrimination". Usually one thinks of a situation as discrimination when a business or person refuses to deliver services because of the client's religion. In this case, they are refusing services because of the "lack of religious views". The person is a "critic of Scientology", and per exact Church policy this person MUST be
discriminated against. The fact is that current and long-standing Scientology policy
encourages and forces religious discrimination against people who are NOT Scientologists. Simply, extant Church policy and consistent enacted behaviors bring about violations of the laws of the land in this regard.
It just seems to me that this is OBVIOUS discrimination, and could be addressed in courts of law. This is COMMON when any person is declared, and all
in-good-standing Scientologists then refuse to provide previously-provided services to the declared person. The SOLE reason for the refusal of service, in this case the services of an eye doctor, is "religious orientation".
SUE THE FUCKERS!