But at a hearing last week in the rape case against actor Danny Masterson, church officials were unable to stop their practices from being debated in open court. The lawyer, according to the woman, warned that she would be expelled from the church if she went to authorities. “Scientology had managed to persuade courts … that you can’t inquire into our religious practices and beliefs and have managed to dissuade much discussion about Scientology,” Rinder said. Both prosecutors and church lawyers opposed the strategy to involve Scientology in the case, but a judge allowed it. Advertisement“The fact that it’s Danny Masterson from ‘That 70’s Show’ … it’s not just local media reporting on a local case, it blows it up way bigger.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 27, 2021 15:02 UTC