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==Religion== ===Scientology=== {{Main|Scientology front groups}} The [[Church of Scientology]] uses front groups either to promote its interests in politics, to make its group seem more legitimate, and to recruit.<ref name="stark">{{cite book |first1=Rodney |last1=Stark |author1-link=Rodney Stark |first2=William Sims |last2=Bainbridge |author2-link=William Sims Bainbridge |title=A Theory of Religion |year=1987 |publisher=[[Peter Lang (publisher)|Peter Lang]] |isbn=0820403563 |ol=2375931M |page=214 |quote=We know many cult movements that maintain client services as front organizations facilitating recruitment to the sponsoring movement. Examples include Scientology...}}</ref> The [[FBI]]'s July 8, 1977 raids on the Church's offices (following discovery of the Church's [[Operation Snow White]]) turned up, among other documents, an undated memo entitled "PR General Categories of Data Needing Coding". This memo listed what it called "Secret PR Front Groups," which included the group APRL, "Alliance for the Preservation of Religious Liberty" (later renamed "Americans Preserving Religious Liberty").<ref name="Kent">{{cite journal | last1 = Kent | first1 = Stephen A. | author1-link = Stephen A. Kent |last2=Krebs |first2=Theresa | year = 1988 | title = When Scholars Know Sin: Alternative Religions and Their Academic Supporters | journal = [[Skeptic (American magazine)|Skeptic]] | volume = 6 | issue = 3 | pages = 36β44 | url = https://skent.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/popular-press-When-Scholars-Know-Sin.pdf | access-date = February 20, 2023 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060303171441/http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~skent/Linkedfiles/When%20Scholars%20Know%20Sin%20.htm |archive-date=March 3, 2006}}</ref> The [[New Cult Awareness Network|Cult Awareness Network]] (CAN) is considered by many{{who|date=January 2014}} to now be a front group for the Church of Scientology, which took the group over financially after bankrupting it in a series of lawsuits.<ref>{{cite journal | last = Kent | first = Stephen A. | author-link = Stephen A. Kent |date=January 2001 | title = The French and German versus American Debate over 'New Religions', Scientology, and Human Rights | journal = [[Marburg Journal of Religion]] | volume = 6 | issue = 1 | url = https://skent.ualberta.ca/contributions/scientology/the-french-and-german-versus-american-debate/ | access-date = 2007-05-07 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010619185217/http://www.uni-marburg.de/religionswissenschaft/journal/mjr/kent2.html |archive-date=June 19, 2001}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | first = Ron | last = Russell | title = Scientology's Revenge - For years, the Cult Awareness Network was the Church of Scientology's biggest enemy. But the late L. Ron Hubbard's L.A.-based religion cured that -- by taking it over | url = http://www.xenutv.com/print/newtimesla-can.htm | work = [[New Times LA]] | date = 1999-09-09 | access-date = 2011-10-21}}</ref> ''Time'' identified several other fronts for Scientology, including: the [[Citizens Commission on Human Rights]] (CCHR), [[The Way to Happiness|The Way to Happiness Foundation]], [[Applied Scholastics]], the [[Concerned Businessmen's Association of America]], and [[HealthMed Clinic]].<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,972865-6,00.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070225132522/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,972865-6,00.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=February 25, 2007 | magazine=Time | title=The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power | date=1991-05-06 | access-date=2010-05-03 | first=Richard | last=Behar}}</ref> Seven years later the ''[[Boston Herald]]'' showed how [[Narconon]] and [[World Literacy Crusade]] were also fronts for Scientology.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/bostonherald/access/26927011.html?dids=26927011:26927011&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Mar+3%2C+1998&author=JOSEPH+MALLIA&pub=Boston+Herald&edition=&startpage=018&desc=INSIDE+THE+CHURCH+OF+SCIENTOLOGY | work=Boston Herald | title=INSIDE THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY; Scientology reaches into schools through Narconon | first=Joseph | last=Mallia | date=1998-03-03 | access-date=July 6, 2017 | archive-date=September 30, 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930235534/https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/bostonherald/access/26927011.html?dids=26927011:26927011&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Mar+3%2C+1998&author=JOSEPH+MALLIA&pub=Boston+Herald&edition=&startpage=018&desc=INSIDE+THE+CHURCH+OF+SCIENTOLOGY | url-status=dead }}</ref> Other Scientology groups include [[Downtown Medical]], [[Criminon]] and the [[Association for Better Living and Education]] (ABLE). === Unification Church === {{Main articles|Organizations related to the Unification Church}}
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