This money grubbing cult is banned in Germany. All they care about is extracting money from naive newbie suckers to perpetuate their scam machine plus they destroy and blackmail homos like Cruise and Travolta
Where is Janet Reno and his tanks when we ACTUALLY need him?
Nope. But it is not granted the status of a church/religion, and it is under observation by the BfV (constitutional watchdog authority against political extremism).
I've always found this bio of L. Ron pretty entertaining:
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/religion/cult/l-ron-hubbard/