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Ron Hubbard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bibliography_of_Scientology" title="Bibliography of Scientology">Publications</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glossary_of_Scientology" title="Glossary of Scientology">Glossary</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background:#CEE0F2; color:black;"> <div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Scientology_beliefs_and_practices" title="Scientology beliefs and practices">Beliefs and practices</a></li></ul></div></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thetan" title="Thetan">Thetan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Auditing_(Scientology)" title="Auditing (Scientology)">Auditing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Bridge_to_Total_Freedom" title="The Bridge to Total Freedom">Bridge to Total Freedom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operating_Thetan" title="Operating Thetan">OT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xenu" title="Xenu">Xenu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scientology_ethics_and_justice" title="Scientology ethics and justice">Ethics and justice</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background:#CEE0F2; color:black;"> <div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_Scientology" title="Church of Scientology">Church of Scientology</a></li></ul></div></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Scientology_officials" title="Scientology officials">Officials and staff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sea_Org" title="Sea Org">Sea Org</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Miscavige" title="David Miscavige">David Miscavige</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background:#CEE0F2; color:black;"> <a href="/wiki/Scientology_controversies" title="Scientology controversies">Controversies</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Scientology_and_law" title="Scientology and law">Litigation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scientology_status_by_country" title="Scientology status by country">Status by country</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suppressive_person" title="Suppressive person">Suppressive person</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Disconnection_(Scientology)" title="Disconnection (Scientology)">Disconnection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fair_game_(Scientology)" title="Fair game (Scientology)">Fair game</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rehabilitation_Project_Force" title="Rehabilitation Project Force">RPF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Hole_(Scientology)" title="The Hole (Scientology)">The Hole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Office_of_Special_Affairs" title="Office of Special Affairs">Office of Special Affairs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Guardian%27s_Office_operations" title="List of Guardian's Office operations">Guardian's Office</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scientology_and_psychiatry" title="Scientology and psychiatry">War on psychiatry</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-below"> <a href="/wiki/Category:Scientology" title="Category:Scientology">More</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><a href="/wiki/Scientology" title="Scientology">Scientology</a> and its perspectives on sexual orientation are based on the writings of <a href="/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard" title="L. Ron Hubbard">L. Ron Hubbard</a>, the founder of the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_Scientology" title="Church of Scientology">Church of Scientology</a>. His statements about homosexuality have led critics to assert that <a href="/wiki/Scientology" title="Scientology">Scientology</a> promotes <a href="/wiki/Homophobia" title="Homophobia">homophobia</a>, though these allegations are disputed by some Scientologists. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Classification">Classification</h2></div> <p>In 1950 Hubbard published <i><a href="/wiki/Dianetics:_The_Modern_Science_of_Mental_Health" title="Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health">Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health</a></i>, introducing his "science of the mind", <a href="/wiki/Dianetics" title="Dianetics">Dianetics</a>. He classified homosexuality as an illness or <a href="/wiki/Sexual_perversion" class="mw-redirect" title="Sexual perversion">sexual perversion</a>, citing contemporary psychiatric and psychological textbooks to support his view: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The sexual pervert (and by this term Dianetics, to be brief, includes any and all forms of deviation in <a href="/wiki/Scientology_beliefs_and_practices#The_eight_dynamics" title="Scientology beliefs and practices">Dynamic II</a> [i.e., sexuality] such as homosexuality, lesbianism, sexual sadism, etc., and all down the catalog of <a href="/wiki/Havelock_Ellis" title="Havelock Ellis">Ellis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Richard_Freiherr_von_Krafft-Ebing" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing">Krafft-Ebing</a>) is actually quite ill physically... he is very far from culpable for his condition, but he is also far from normal and extremely dangerous to society...<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Hubbard further defined perversion in his 1951 book <i><a href="/wiki/Science_of_Survival" title="Science of Survival">Science of Survival: Prediction of Human Behavior</a></i>, where he introduced the concept of the "<a href="/wiki/Emotional_tone_scale" class="mw-redirect" title="Emotional tone scale">tone scale</a>", a means of classifying individuals and human behavior on a chart running from +40 (the most beneficial) to −40 (the least beneficial). Sexual perversion, a category in which he included homosexuality, was termed "covert hostility" and given a score of 1.1, "the level of the pervert, the hypocrite, the turncoat,<span class="nowrap"> </span>[...] the subversive". He considered such people to be "skulking coward[s] who yet contain enough perfidious energy to strike back, but not enough courage ever to give warning".<sup id="cite_ref-sos1_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sos1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He characterized "promiscuity, perversion, sadism, and irregular practices" as well as "<a href="/wiki/Free_love" title="Free love">free love</a>, easy marriage and quick divorce" as being undesirable activities, "since it is non-survival not to have a well ordered system for the creation and upbringing of children, by families". Such "sexual perverts" engaged in "irregular practices which do anything but tend toward the creation of children" and "efforts [which] tend not towards enjoyment but toward the pollution and derangement of sex itself so as to make it as repulsive as possible to others and so to inhibit procreation".<sup id="cite_ref-sos2_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sos2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hubbard's 1951 book <i>Handbook for Preclears</i> likewise classified homosexuality as "about 1.1 (covert hostility) on the tone scale", along with "general promiscuity". He set out what he saw as the cause of homosexuality: a mental "aberration", with the result that "an individual aberrated enough about sex will do strange things to be a cause or an effect. He will substitute punishment for sex. He will pervert others. Homosexuality comes from this manifestation and from the manifestation of life continuation for others." The "aberration" was caused by a child trying to "continue the life" of a dominant parent of the opposite sex.<sup id="cite_ref-handbook_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-handbook-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hubbard's views on homosexuality were further explained in a 1972 book by Scientologist Ruth Minshull, <i>How To Choose Your People</i>, which was published through the Church of Scientology, copyrighted to Hubbard, and given "issue authority" by the Scientology hierarchy. Scientology churches sold the book alongside the works of Hubbard until 1983.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Minshull described the "gentle-mannered homosexual" as a classic example of the "subversive" 1.1 personality, commenting that they "may be fearful, sympathetic, propitiative, griefy or apathetic. Occasionally they manage an ineffectual tantrum." Minshull claimed they were social misfits: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Homosexuals don't practice love; 1.1s can't. Their relationships consist of: 1) brief, sordid and impersonal meetings or 2) longer arrangements punctuated by dramatic tirades, discords, jealousies and frequent infidelity. It could hardly be otherwise since the tone is made up of suspicion and hate, producing a darling sweetness interspersed with petty peevishness. Their "love" turns to deep contempt eventually.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Homosexuals had no redeeming "social value", in Minshull's view. She cautioned that "homosexuals should not be abused or ridiculed. But a society bent on survival must recognize any aberration as such and seek to raise people out of the low emotion that produces it." </p><p><a href="/wiki/Jon_Atack" class="mw-redirect" title="Jon Atack">Jon Atack</a> notes that L. Ron Hubbard's son <a href="/wiki/Quentin_Hubbard" title="Quentin Hubbard">Quentin Hubbard</a> was homosexual.<sup id="cite_ref-Atack_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Atack-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Atack, L. Ron Hubbard had repeatedly announced that his son Quentin would succeed him after his death, but Quentin died of an apparent suicide in 1976.<sup id="cite_ref-Atack_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Atack-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Attempts_to_"cure"_homosexuality"><span id="Attempts_to_.22cure.22_homosexuality"></span>Attempts to "cure" homosexuality</h2></div> <p>There is some evidence that Hubbard's Dianetics movement sought to use Dianetics to <a href="/wiki/Sexual_orientation_change_efforts" class="mw-redirect" title="Sexual orientation change efforts">"cure" homosexuality</a>. In January 1951, the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation of <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth,_NJ" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabeth, NJ">Elizabeth, New Jersey</a>, published <i>Dianetic Processing: A Brief Survey of Research Projects and Preliminary Results</i>, a booklet providing the results of <a href="/wiki/Psychometric_tests" class="mw-redirect" title="Psychometric tests">psychometric tests</a> conducted on 88 people undergoing Dianetics therapy. It presents case histories and a number of X-ray plates to support claims that Dianetics had cured "aberrations" including <a href="/wiki/Bipolar_disorder" title="Bipolar disorder">bipolar disorder</a>, asthma, arthritis, <a href="/wiki/Colitis" title="Colitis">colitis</a>, and "overt homosexuality", and that after Dianetic processing, test subjects experienced significantly increased scores on a standardized <a href="/wiki/IQ_test" class="mw-redirect" title="IQ test">IQ test</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In Hubbard's 1951 book <i>Handbook for <a href="/wiki/Preclear" class="mw-redirect" title="Preclear">Preclears</a></i>, he set out instructions for Dianeticists to "cure" homosexuality. After claiming that the cause of homosexuality was a fixation on a dominant parent of the opposite sex, he advised, "Break this life continuum concept by running sympathy and grief for the dominant parent and then run off the desires to be an effect and their failures and the homosexual is rehabilitated."<sup id="cite_ref-handbook_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-handbook-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hubbard urged society to tackle the issue of "sexual perversion" (including homosexuality), calling it "of vital importance, if one wishes to stop immorality, and the abuse of children". In <i>Science of Survival</i>, he called for drastic action to be taken against sexual perverts, whom he rated as "1.1 individuals": </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Such people should be taken from the society as rapidly as possible and uniformly <a href="/wiki/Psychiatric_hospital" title="Psychiatric hospital">institutionalized</a>; for here is the level of the contagion of immorality, and the destruction of ethics; here is the fodder which secret police organizations use for their filthy operations. One of the most effective measures of security that a nation threatened by war could take would be rounding up and placing in a <a href="/wiki/Cantonment" title="Cantonment">cantonment</a>, away from society, any 1.1 individual who might be connected with government, the military, or essential industry; since here are people who, regardless of any record of their family's loyalty, are potential traitors, the very mode of operation of their insanity being betrayal. In this level is the slime of society, the sex criminals, the political subversives, the people whose apparently rational activities are yet but the devious writhings of secret hate.<sup id="cite_ref-sos1_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sos1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>In later years, Hubbard sought to distance himself from efforts to regulate the sexual affairs of lay Scientologists. In a 1967 policy letter, he declared: "It has never been any part of my plans to regulate or to attempt to regulate the private lives of individuals. Whenever this has occurred, it has not resulted in any improved condition... Therefore all former rules, regulations and policies relating to the sexual activities of Scientologists are cancelled."<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Members of the <a href="/wiki/Sea_Org" title="Sea Org">Sea Org</a> remained under strict rules according to a 1978 order.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Current_Scientology_viewpoints">Current Scientology viewpoints</h2></div> <p>Although Hubbard's views on homosexuality remain unamended in modern editions of Scientology books, gay Scientologists have argued that Hubbard and the Church have set aside any anti-homosexual views expressed in the past. In 2003, in the city of Los Angeles, the Church of Scientology sponsored a Multathlon for Human Rights and Tolerance. Keith Relkin, a gay activist and Scientologist, turned over a rainbow flag to the team captain who was running 250 miles through the metropolis.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The American Church of Scientology published a press release on its website quoting gay activist Keith Relkin as saying, "Over the years I have worked with the Church of Scientology for greater inclusion of gay people like me, and today represents a milestone in that progress."<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Paul_Haggis" title="Paul Haggis">Paul Haggis</a>, a Hollywood screenwriter and director, publicly left Scientology in October 2009, claiming that the San Diego branch of the Church of Scientology gave its support to California <a href="/wiki/Proposition_8" class="mw-redirect" title="Proposition 8">Proposition 8</a>, which sought to ban same-sex marriage. Haggis wrote to <a href="/wiki/Thomas_W._Davis" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas W. Davis">Tommy Davis</a>, the Church's spokesman, and requested that he denounce their support for Prop 8. However, the Church disputes this, with Davis stating, "Church of Scientology San Diego had been put on a list of churches that supported Proposition 8 out in California. It was incorrectly included and named when it should have never been on the list to begin with." Davis also stated that the inclusion of the San Diego branch on the list supporting Prop. 8 was the work of a single employee, who was removed from his post and the Church's name taken off the list.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-guardianprop8_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardianprop8-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ortega_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ortega-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-telegraphprop8_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-telegraphprop8-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A 2004 article in the <i><a href="/wiki/St._Petersburg_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Petersburg Times">St. Petersburg Times</a></i> reported that the Church defines marriage as the union between a man and a woman.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Melissa M. Wilcox, professor in <a href="/wiki/Religious_Studies" class="mw-redirect" title="Religious Studies">Religious Studies</a> at <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Riverside" title="University of California, Riverside">UC Riverside</a>, notes in <i>Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in America</i> that while present-day detractors of Scientology accuse it of homophobia, government suspicion in the early days of Scientology apparently included accusations of homosexuality.<sup id="cite_ref-Wilcox_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wilcox-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In response to a query by her about the Church's current position, the Church of Scientology in 2005 stated: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The Church of Scientology does not dictate sexual preferences. Scientology is a practical method of improving conditions in life and works to increase a person's abilities, give higher <a href="/wiki/IQ" class="mw-redirect" title="IQ">IQ</a> and better reaction time, greater ability to solve his problems in life – things of this nature.<sup id="cite_ref-Wilcox_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wilcox-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>An official Scientology website states, "The <a href="/wiki/Scientology_beliefs_and_practices#The_eight_dynamics" title="Scientology beliefs and practices">second dynamic</a> is the urge toward existence as a <a href="/wiki/Future_generation" class="mw-redirect" title="Future generation">future generation</a>. It has two compartments: sex; and the family unit, including the rearing of children."<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "A culture will go by the boards if its basic building block, the family, is removed as a valid building block. So one can be fairly sure that he who destroys marriage destroys the civilization."<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div> <ul><li>Scientology's <a href="/wiki/Scientology_beliefs_and_practices#The_eight_dynamics" title="Scientology beliefs and practices">second-dynamic</a> topics: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Scientology_and_gender" title="Scientology and gender">Scientology and gender</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scientology_and_sex" title="Scientology and sex">Scientology and sex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scientology_and_abortion" title="Scientology and abortion">Scientology and abortion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scientology_and_marriage" title="Scientology and marriage">Scientology and marriage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Silent_birth" title="Silent birth">Silent birth</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hollywood_Undercover" title="Hollywood Undercover">Hollywood Undercover</a></i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2></div> <p><small>Note: <b>HCOB</b> refers to <a href="/wiki/Hubbard_Communications_Office_Bulletin" class="mw-redirect" title="Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin">Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin</a>, <b>HCOPL</b> refers to <a href="/wiki/Hubbard_Communications_Office_Policy_Letter" class="mw-redirect" title="Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter">Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter</a>, and <b>SHSBC</b> refers to "Saint Hill Special Briefing Courses". All have been made publicly available by the Church of Scientology in the past, both as individual documents or in bound volumes. </small> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFHubbard1978" class="citation book cs1">Hubbard (1978). <i>Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health</i>. 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