Posted on 05/27/2003 9:58:22 AM PDT by 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
LOL!!! If only it were that easy.
I'd at least advise her to worry more about cutting back on carbohydrates.
If you love marriage so much, why stop with three, Kirstie!? Why not go for 4, or 5, or 6...?
In my wild and stupid youth, I did that once in Houston. Friends and I went for "fun of it." The Scientologists had taken over a two story home, on the edge of River Oaks, of an engineer and his family; moved them to the top floor and used the first floor to recruit.
It was going to cost thousands of $$$ for me to become "clear" but I clearly wasn't going to fall for that voodoo.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. L.Ron Hubbard, the founder, considered himself a disciple of Alastair Crowely, a renowned "warlock" and practitioner of Satan worship, black magic, and admitted pederast (sex with boys...). Someone more demonic and repellent can't be imagined. I have a friend whose parents were Scientologist and it is an evil cult, no doubt about it.
Yeah, I do. Always wanted to get into Kirsties' alley.
FMCDH
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