Letter to the Editor of St. Petersburg Times

November 1, 2000

I am a Scientologist and have been for many years. I have been helped immensely by its ethics technology and spiritual technology. It should be obvious to most people that any of man's group endeavors eventually fail or are harmed when there is a corruption of morals, personal integrity and honesty among group members. Scientology ethics enable a person to win out over everyday immoral influences in society, to win out over those feelings that everyone has felt from time to time that may pressure an individual to immoral acts. Robert Minton knows that without morals and high integrity, Scientology would eventually fail. He really wants only to destroy a group that in verifiable fact has helped hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people to live happier, more ethical lives. He pretends to want to help us by reforming our ethics technology, but alteration of our ethics technology would make it unworkable. One wonders what Robert Minton is afraid of, what he is hiding that our ethics technology in its current form could bring to light.

Robert Magness, Dunedin Florida