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Greens say tax payer money going to Church of Scientology

Thursday, May 10th, 2012

Green’s drugs spokesman Kevin Hague has alleged in the New Zealand Parliament that the Church of Scientology is using tax-payer money to promote an anti-psychiatry agenda and messages against medication used to treat mental illness through charities disguised as social service organisations.

Mr Hague said he had watched members of the church on Auckland’s Queen Street target vulnerable people.

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