Scientologists
Sir: Roy Wallis again reveals his inability to bring a sociologist's oblec" tivity to his subject. 'Convert or subvert' (December 29) was more 3 sretrvaigwh.tfot ward invective against the Church of Scientology than a ho ie ol4 de C. H. Ralph's impartiality is tra much of by Wallis but he fails to note Rolph's close connections with the National Association for Mettal Health. Under his real name of C. g' Hewitt, Rolph has been a member of the Association for some fourteeti years and has in that time served on their senior administrative committees. This is no condemnation of Rolph but cwould o vsuggest between hhis thae spp approach tdog itshtes panardtiaEthe NAMH will be less than itt/ ChWuarcilhis'sofgasrcbileedhtoexiopglaynas mticoanopfs 1.1;e en against the NAMH requires s°'" suspension ot one's critical faculties.let• One must believe that a simP demonstration outside the offices ° the Association constitutes 'harass" ment.' One must agree that the tologists in joining the Associati° openly at a peak rate of eighty per daYe (usual rate of membership was twelvt, tempt pmtotno 'infiltrate.' tewterraeraking a covert a iew Wallis tends to overlook the Sces tologist's cheerful and sometirn,_, light-heartedeh tT
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The somewhat sensation0 approach of Wallis to this affair ti, er'n, use of twisted logic, loaded innrre ' does in his review; this is the sa on approach which led Kenneth Robins (an ex president of the NAMH) to imPose repressive legislation on foreign Members of the Church of Scientology in 1968. This particularly distasteful !elm of religious discrimination is still 'a operation today in the name of the British people. Foreign Scientologists are still refused entry into this country s°1elY on the basis of their beliefs. It surprises me that the public doesn't tire of reading these stale old tirades against the Church of Scient°106Y. Book reviewers are book reviewers and religious intolerance should really be kept for the Hyde Park Ce'rrier soap box.
Peter Thompson Church of Scientology, Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
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