Scientology Drove Actress Kirstie Alley to Vote for Bush

MRC ^ | Tuesday May 27, 2003 | BrentBaker

[fight_truth_decay]

Belonging to the Church of Scientology, which opposes the use of pharmaceuticals for psychiatric problems, drove actress Kirstie Alley, "Rebecca" on Cheers, to vote for George W. Bush for President in 2000 even though she preferred Al Gore on most issues. In an interview with Washington Post "Reliable Source" gossip columnist Lloyd Grove, Alley revealed she voted for Bush because, "although I love Al Gore and I like many of his ideas, I just had a problem with his wife," Tipper, who supports using drugs to correct mental problems.

An excerpt from Grove's piece in the Sunday, May 25 Post:

Before we get to Kirstie Alley's issue -- enacting a federal law to prohibit schools from pushing parents to medicate "problem" children -- let's get to Kirstie Alley's love life.

"When I come to Washington in June" -- to lobby for Senate passage of the Child Medication Safety Act, which passed the House overwhelmingly last week -- "I might just look for a husband," the 52-year-old mother of two told us from Los Angeles. "I would like to be married again. I can't have a conservative, and he can't be on psychotropic drugs....He would be my third. I love marriage. I love monogamy."

Other specifications?

"I want him to be from 40 to 50 years old," said Alley, who starred in the hit sitcom "Cheers" and now is seen everywhere umpteen times a day in a series of amusing Pier 1 Imports commercials....

Okay, let's get to Alley's issue. She's touting it under the auspices of the Scientology-supported Citizens Commission on Human Rights. A longtime member of the Church of Scientology, which is unalterably opposed to psychiatric medications of any kind, Alley has been speaking out against mental health professionals who think psychiatric drugs can sometimes help people.

"I'm an absolutist," Alley said. "I'm very adamant against drugs. When teachers and school administrators talk about problems with attention span and left brain, right brain, I say '[Bleep] the left brain, [bleep] the right brain!' We're talking about a whole human being, not one side of the brain or another side!"

Alley's convictions are so strong, she said, that in the last presidential election she voted for George W. Bush instead of her preferred candidate, Al Gore. "My personal reason was that, although I love Al Gore and I like many of his ideas, I just had a problem with his wife," Tipper, a mental health advocate who, during the campaign, candidly discussed her own bouts of depression and how she was aided by therapy and drugs. "I know I'm going to get myself in trouble," Alley confided. "Look, I have a loud mouth."

END of Excerpt

Another constituency for Karl Rove to court, Scientologists.

-- Brent Baker

[Steve Van Doorn]

"My personal reason was that, although I love Al Gore and I like many of his ideas”

Allow me to Finnish her sentence:
‘Such as the Internet. Anyone that can take credit for inventing the internet must have a great mind.’

[Mister Magoo]

Scientologists believe that a major cause of mankind's problems began 75 million years ago, when the planet Earth, then called "Teegeeach," was part of a confederation of 90 planets under the leadership of a tyrannical ruler named Xenu. Then, as now, the materials state, the chief problem was overpopulation.

Xenu, the documents state, decided to take radical measures to overcome the overpopulation problem. Beings were captured on Earth and on other planets and flown to at least 10 volcanoes on Earth.

The documents state that H-bombs far more powerful than any in existence today were dropped on these volcanoes, destroying the people but freeing their spirits -- called thetans -- which attached themselves to one another in clusters.

After the nuclear explosions, according to the documents, the thetans were trapped in a compound of frozen alcohol and glycol and, during a 36-day period, Xenu "implanted" in them the seeds of aberrant behavior for generations to come. When people die, these clusters attach to other humans and keep perpetuating themselves.

[Steve Van Doorn]

She gives brunets a bad name. She should of been a blond.

[billb]

I dunno, but you might get the "laying on of hands" healing power that Travolta claims to have. Personally, I don't believe anyone can really do that, except Mr. Myogi.

[dasboot]

Yep, You got it right, pretty much, about the, history of man... according to Scientologists. Pretty bizarre stuff.

My brother, MENSA guy and millionaire (or, at least, was) is a 30 yr vet of the org. Smart guy...(maybe too smart?)

Anyway, the Commission on Human Rights was very helpful to me during my fight with the public school that was attempting to Ritalinize my kid. They provided me lots of serious research and good advice with no obligation upon me. They really do care about the psyhciatric tyranny in law, and don't seem to be whacked at all: "absolutist".

I don't care much for the religious aspect of Scientology, but they are doing some good, important work.

[jmc813]

WOD Ping

[Petronski]

[ffusco]

In LA I listened to a Scientology demonstration outside their HQ on Sunset Blvd. The device to measure my "AURA" was a meter that measured skin conductivity (perspiration) by holding 2 tin cans connected to a meter. Touch the 2 cans together (as I did) and the meter goes off the scale. My reading was then "over"and I was asked to leave.

[Cinnamon Girl]

No to drugs, yes to filling your pool with vodka and drinking your way out.

[dead]

Makes sense.

[ffusco]

Lt. Saavik was hot for a half vulcan babe.

[Petronski]

The device to measure my "AURA" was a meter that measured skin conductivity (perspiration) by holding 2 tin cans connected to a meter.

Scientology: Better Living through Radio Shack

[mwl1]

Evidently everyone on this thread has forgotten that this woman is a foul-mouthed, vulgar slut who publicly thanked her significant other on nationwide television (Emmy's) for giving her the "big one."

This woman is trash.

[js1138]

Psientology is a gateway drug leading to Republicanism. Pass it on.

;^)

[frodolives]

SHOULD HAVE SHOULD HAVE SHOULD HAVE

Sorry, now back to our regular program

[Mister Magoo]

Many Scientologists who have left from the highest levels of Scientology have been in a room at Scientology's Sandcastle building in Clearwater, Florida for 5-7 hours per day for up to 15 years, holding two asparagus cans together, attached to a primitive lie detector, talking all day to dead space aliens.

[Petronski]

Good thing Clinton gave them tax-exempt status as a 'church.'

</sarcasm>

[TC Rider]

..proving there are some endorsements that W could do without.

Kirstie went from being a cokehead to an airhead. (my apologies to air)

[Nita Nupress]

She gives brunets a bad name. She should of been a blond.

Hay! Wach it!

And that should be "have" instead of "of."

[Quilla]

My sister has been in this cult for decades. Fifteen years ago, at a family reunion at the beach, her husband cracked his tailbone riding a jet ski. I can tell you, the poor guy was in pain and never left their room for the rest of the week. She'd go in and give him a 'touch assist' - I watched one. She'd touch his forefinger, asked him 'can you feel this', he'd respond 'yes', and she'd move to his wrist and ask the question again. She did this about 10 times and the treatment was over.

Now I'm not a doctor, don't even play one on tv; but I understand my brother-in-law suffered for over a month until his tailbone healed on its own. Scientology is an expensive hoax.