Reply #7: Your friends may not proselytize to you

[Pithlet]

but Scientology is notoriously aggressive in its attempts to recruit. Their treatment programs are based on precepts of Scientology, and therefore should be off limits to federal funding. Any religious group can claim their belief system helps people to overcome addiction. That doesn't mean they're entitled to federal funds, whether it works or not. I don't think that people who are Scientologists are evil, bad people. They're victims of a giant scam. Scientology itself as an organization I find highly objectionable. It's not your typical religious group. People who are against organized religion in general tend to like to lump Scientology in with the rest, but it really is its own, scary animal. It's bad enough they've scammed the government into granting them status as a church. Now they want to draw funds from the government to help them "recruit" more victims, exploiting their addiction to reel them in. Not on my tax dollar.