Going Clear, Part 14 – Wright adopts and publishes discredited nut cases

Going Clear, Part 14 – Wright adopts and publishes discredited nut cases

So then he goes into this case about Michael Pattinson, who was a guy who claimed to be gay and discriminated against in Scientology, right. And he brought a lawsuit against Travolta and I think me, I think David Miscavige. You know, it was one of those nut-case lawsuits where he listed, he included as a defendant Bill Clinton, who was the sitting President of the United States of America at the time, was in this lawsuit. Alright. Larry Wright doesn’t tell you that here. “This is a very grave and important lawsuit on the subject of homosexuality that Michael Pattinson brought”. He doesn’t tell you that. And this is what he says, quote “that case was voluntarily withdrawn following an avalanche of countersuits. Both Pattinson and his attorney say they were driven into bankruptcy”. Okay.

Let me tell you something. I was there when that lawsuit got filed. You know what it was good for? Comedic relief. It was a relief, because you know there was a lot of serious litigation and all sorts of—and this lawsuit came in and that was all it was good for, was comedic relief and that’s how the court viewed it. It was a complete shopping cart lady lawsuit. But he makes it sound like a real thing here, that these guys were systematically destroyed for having had the temerity to raise these grave issues. It was a joke. And the guy who filed it, the lawyer, was labelled as a vexatious litigant by the LA Superior Court. Which means he had to have his pleadings vetted before he could even bring another lawsuit. He couldn’t even just go down and—he lost his right to file a lawsuit. This stuff was so frivolous that he lost his right to even file a lawsuit. He had to get permission to file a lawsuit. OK, so here we are. This is all building this big façade about this intolerable homophobic environment that Paul was having to navigate.