Here is a quick little, and I hope meaningful, post on the subject of John McMaster.
John should be honored. He is a wonderful Being . . . and I know that for a fact, and intimately.
For the record, I have to state that John was one of the "wards" I had to "handle" and keep an eye on when I was "operating for the old B1." See my thread on this here:
http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?t=11823
I of course knew John when we were both in good standing and when we both had "stellar" reputations in the orgs.
So it was easy to continue with him when I was undercover as a bad boy.
John personally told me he was the historical figure now known as Jesus Christ, and I will tell you that in duplicating that communication, as delivered and when in communion and harmony with the Being, I can only say it resonated with me as correct and true.
I have seen John do some astounding things. He is actually an incredibly powerful Being . . . but the trick is his power is not brute force. It does not hit as a ton of bricks. It is as a flow of pure beauty and love that permeates you and influences you . . . and believe me, I have watched him
move people with it!
Love as it happens is, as he expressed it, his hot item. It is his most important item. Alan Walter correctly lists
Love as one of the "Pillars of Spiritual Power." (I'll probably post on that one of these days . . . hang in there FoTi

This is an important subject.)
So yes, JM was a "fairy" . . . gay, and as a human in that lifetime, a homosexual. I have no angst on any of that, it is not my scene, and while I think it is less than optimum, I do not condemn nor criticize it in others.
Humans can often be stuck in imagery and dramatizations, and practices, they come to accommodate, for whatever reasons, that are actually carry forwards of long ago higher level spiritual practices. And, as processors, it is wrong to criticize or condemn the conditions we find our clients/PCs in. Our job is to understand and to help them, in their own view and estimation, to upgrade and optimize there lives.
The tragedy is that Hubbard betrayed him, waged war on him, and vilified him . . . even as John worked to honor Hubbard and and spread the technology we all once believed in.
This, of course, has a catastrophic effect/impact on any sane and decent Being. It probably broke John's heart . . . . for remember,
Love was John's item. And along with love goes, honor, truth, appreciation, harmony of relationships and understanding and all those fine things of human (and spiritual) nature that Hubbard so routinely violated and trashed.
The tragedy of this is that a Being can flip into the negative . . . they trigger into the Power Split, change polarity and spiritual vector and become quite negative. And the consequence of this is that they end up on a fast track of decline and succumb.
When John was trashed by Hubbard, two things happened. Of course he ended up bitter toward "Fatty" Hubbard due to the enormous BPC generated (What a betrayal it must have felt to John.) The other thing was that John reverted to what he knew best in order to survive and earn a living . . . he reverted to the tech and processing. His error in my view was in selling and running the Clearing Course on people in the field. He actually ran it in session on PC's with him as a auditor. You can list the violations in this, I don't need to.
He'd have been wiser to have simply run superlative processing of non-confidential stuff, and won at that.
However, that's by the by. The church waged war on him . . . we are all familiar with that syndrome. My job was to keep tabs on him and what he was up to . . . mainly in the context of misuse, dissemination of, the confidential materials. Others had other duties vis a vis "handling" John.
You have read above that John died of cirosis of the liver induced by alcoholic consumption. It is true. John was a heavy whiskey drinker when I knew him after he fell out with the CofS. And I can tell you factually, as I have mentioned before, I was told by the B1 operative that the operative's intent and assignment was to engage John in excessive drinking with the specific purpose of killing him off . . . John also had stomach ulcers which the excessive consumption of alcohol was intended to complicate. This "assignment objective/action" I did not know of at the time . . . it was revealed to me by the operative some time after the events.
So, I write this as a salute to John McMaster. (It turned out a little longer that I envisioned.)
John McMaster, RIP my Dear. You are a worthy friend to anyone wise enough to accept you as such. RIP.
RogerB