Editing Homosexuality and religion (section)

====Scientology====
{{Main|Scientology and homosexuality}}

The [[Church of Scientology]] opposes same-sex marriage<ref name=About>{{cite news |title=About Scientology |url=http://www.sptimes.com/2004/07/18/Tampabay/About_Scientology.shtml |work=[[St. Petersburg Times]] |date=July 18, 2004 |access-date=September 2, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040810101057/http://www.sptimes.com/2004/07/18/Tampabay/About_Scientology.shtml |archive-date=August 10, 2004}}</ref> and its founder [[L. Ron Hubbard]] called homosexuality a dangerous perversion.{{refn|<ref name=Boundaries>{{cite book |last=Thomas |first=Aled |year=2021 |title=Free Zone Scientology: Contesting the Boundaries of a New Religion |location=London |publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]] |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/eRAYEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1|isbn=978-1-350-18254-7 }}</ref>{{rp|p=76}}<ref name=ScienceOfSurvival>{{cite book | last=Hubbard|first=Ron|author-link=L. Ron Hubbard | title=Science of Survival | publisher=Church of Scientology of California | year=1975 | isbn=0-88404-001-1 | url=https://archive.org/details/scienceofsurviva00lron_0/ }}</ref>{{rp|pp=88–90}}<ref name=FoundOut>{{Cite magazine |last=Power |first= Shannon |date=2023-09-26 |title=Ex-Scientologist reveals what happened when Church found out she was gay |url=https://www.newsweek.com/scientology-church-gay-miscavige-leah-remini-1829857|magazine=[[Newsweek]]}}</ref>}} The [[Church of Scientology]]'s perspectives on homosexuality are based on the writings of its founder, and his statements about homosexuality have led critics to assert that [[Scientology]] promotes [[homophobia]], and being gay or accused of being gay is viewed as negative in the Scientology community.<ref name=Humiliated>{{Cite magazine |date=2018-09-25 |title=When I Came Out as Gay, the Church of Scientology Humiliated Me|magazine=[[Elle (magazine)|Elle]] |url=https://www.elle.com/culture/a23025748/scientology-michelle-leclair-interview/ }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Ross |first=Martha |date=2022-09-22 |title=Those John Travolta rumors? How Scientology shut them down |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/22/those-john-travolta-rumors-how-scientology-shut-them-down/ |access-date=2025-02-11 |newspaper=[[Mercury News]]|location=San Jose, California}}</ref> According to a 2018 source, currently used, updated editions of Hubbard's [[Canon (basic principle)|canonical]] book,<ref name=SacredTradition>{{Cite book |editor1-last=Lewis |editor1-first=James R. |editor1-link=James R. Lewis (scholar) |editor2-first=Olav |editor2-last=Hammer |editor2-link=Olav Hammer |title=The Invention of Sacred Tradition |chapter=Scientology, scripture, and sacred tradition |first=Mikael |last=Rothstein |author-link=Mikael Rothstein |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |year=2007 |isbn=9780521864794 |doi=10.1017/CBO9780511488450.002}}</ref>{{rp|p=21}} ''[[Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health|Dianetics]]'', continue to use [[heteronormative]] and [[Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric|anti-gay]] language and list gay people as perverts who are physically ill and extremely dangerous to society.<ref name=Boundaries/>{{rp|p=78}}<ref name=Dianetics>{{cite book | last=Hubbard|first=Ron|author-link=L. Ron Hubbard | title=Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health | publisher=[[Church of Scientology]]|location=Commerce, California | orig-date=1978 |date=2007 | isbn=9781403144461 |pages=125, 155, 177|url=https://archive.org/details/dianeticsmoderns0000hubb_t8p0/page/124/mode/2up?q=homosexuality|url-access=limited}}</ref> Some critics have stated that the church tried to [[Conversion therapy|change their gay attractions]] through forms of therapy.<ref name=FoundOut>{{Cite magazine |last=Power |first= Shannon |date=2023-09-26 |title=Ex-Scientologist reveals what happened when Church found out she was gay |url=https://www.newsweek.com/scientology-church-gay-miscavige-leah-remini-1829857|magazine=[[Newsweek]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |magazine=[[LGBTQ Nation]] |date=2016-03-25 |title=A grim glimpse into The Church of Scientology's jail for gay people |url=https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/03/a-grim-glimpse-into-the-church-of-scientologys-jail-for-gay-people/}}</ref>