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Academy Award-winning film director Paul Haggis leaves Scientology

Haggis expressed his disappointment to Davis, son of actress Anne Archer, that the San Diego, California branch of the Church of Scientology supported Proposition 8. Proposition 8 removed the rights of same-sex couples to marry in California. Full Article at Wikinews

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