Here are 6 creepy similarities between the NRA and the Church of Scientology

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Here are 6 creepy similarities between the NRA and the Church of Scientology

by Dave Edwards at the Raw Story

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/here-are-6-creepy-similarities-between-the-nra-and-the-church-of-scientology/

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. Crushing members over small deviations from doctrine

NRA members who stray from absolute agreement can expect the organization to push back hard. When Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) tried to support universal background checks after the Newtown massacre, the NRA quickly organized against the longtime member to defeat the measure.

The New York Times reported:


On the afternoon of Monday, April 15, Manchin was surprised to learn about an email that the N.R.A. had sent to his Senate colleagues. The email (a similar version of which went out to N.R.A. members) ended any pretense of neutrality by announcing that the organization would vehemently oppose the Manchin-Toomey bill. In addition, the organization said it would “score” the vote — meaning, it would factor into its election-year grading system how each senator voted on the bill. (In some conservative states, an N.R.A. grade can be determinative; as one former legislator told me, “When you come from a state like mine, you’d better be with them 100 percent.”)

Aghast, Manchin got Jim Baker on the phone. “Jim, why’d you change?” he recalls asking.

Rather than answer the question, Baker simply replied: “We’re totally opposed to it. We’re going to be fighting it with all we have.”

Scientology also saves its harshest attacks for members who turn on tthe organization made life a living hell on defectors.he church. After actress Leah Remini left the church, former member Jason Beghe told journalist Tony Ortega how



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