Scientology Members, Protesters Celebrate L. Ron's Birthday In SF

We're a bit late to the game with these images, but they're well-worth the tardiness. Believe us. Check out shots of Saturday's Church of Scientology protest/L Ron Hubbard celebration. In these images you will find protesters, Bay Area Scientologists, and an oldie-but-goodie NSFW shot thrown in for good measure.

If any CoS Hubbard birthday attendees would like to chime in with regard to what went down or to write about the festivities for SFist, let us know. We're excited to have your input. Also, please do not have us killed. Oh, and for the rest of you, here's a Scientology Classification Gradation and Awareness Chart. You'll want to print this out and hang it up on your dorm room, cubicle, or bedroom wall for sure. It is, for lack of a better word, mind-boggling.

Update: Technical difficulties fixed; view away.

Images: Jim Herd and Encyclopedia Dramatica

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Is that a Squirtle on their flag? I'm not entirely following the iconography.

I am not in b4terryeo or b4bgodley at this point.

It's a mudkips, and yes, it's a pokemon. It's a repeated topic and in joke from a popular website.

Thanks for the pictures.

See you the 12th.

I'd like to point out that in the article which is linked to "...have us killed", I make no false claims and do not put the church down in it's everyday philosophy. I do, in fact mention that it is closer to what scientists believe than what most christians preach to be historical truth. Coming from me, the king of atheism (my wife won't let me go into a church with her for fear of what I'll say), it was a compliment.

Personally, I don't think your church is any more on the money in the grand scheme, but I wouldn't refuse to hear anyone out. Please don't make me out to look like the bad guy here - that is, unless you have documentation to prove that there is no abuse of the VeRO policy on eBay, that the FDA did not order the labels changed on e-meters of that the statements that internationally recognized papers have printed were either completely fabricated or at the very least, taken out of context.

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