When Father’s Day 2024 reminds you that Scientology ripped apart your family Tony Ortega Jun 16, 2024

[Karen#1]

[Another year passes and Scientologists like Geoff Levin still can’t see their loved ones after their families have been ripped apart by “disconnection.” So, for this Father’s Day, we’re reposting the heartbreaking piece Geoff wrote for us two years ago.]

While here in the US today many children will be reconnecting with their dads for Father’s Day, some of us know that it’s not going to happen this year.

Some of us are ex-Scientologists. And when you leave Scientology, you run the risk of being labeled an enemy of the church, what it calls “suppressive persons.”

When that happens, Scientology instructs everyone who wants to remain in good standing with the organization to cut that “SP” out of their lives.

I myself followed this “disconnection” policy after my own brother, Robbie Levin, left the organization in 1984. He was declared “suppressive” for leaving the church. And so I had to disconnect from him then if I wanted to remain in good standing. And the way my mind worked then, I did not want to “lose my eternity.”

By the year 2017 I had a different view of Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. I disobeyed that disconnection order and reunited with Robbie. The result was that I was declared suppressive. And now the people who were close to me had to make that choice.

And that’s how I lost my kids.

When Father’s Day 2024 reminds you that Scientology ripped apart your family

[Another year passes and Scientologists like Geoff Levin still can’t see their loved ones after their families have been ripped apart by “disconnection.” So, for this Father’s Day, we’re reposting the heartbreaking piece Geoff wrote for us two years ago.]

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[I M Dex]

[Another year passes and Scientologists like Geoff Levin still can’t see their loved ones after their families have been ripped apart by “disconnection.” So, for this Father’s Day, we’re reposting the heartbreaking piece Geoff wrote for us two years ago.]

While here in the US today many children will be reconnecting with their dads for Father’s Day, some of us know that it’s not going to happen this year.

Some of us are ex-Scientologists. And when you leave Scientology, you run the risk of being labeled an enemy of the church, what it calls “suppressive persons.”

When that happens, Scientology instructs everyone who wants to remain in good standing with the organization to cut that “SP” out of their lives.

I myself followed this “disconnection” policy after my own brother, Robbie Levin, left the organization in 1984. He was declared “suppressive” for leaving the church. And so I had to disconnect from him then if I wanted to remain in good standing. And the way my mind worked then, I did not want to “lose my eternity.”

By the year 2017 I had a different view of Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. I disobeyed that disconnection order and reunited with Robbie. The result was that I was declared suppressive. And now the people who were close to me had to make that choice.

And that’s how I lost my kids.

When Father’s Day 2024 reminds you that Scientology ripped apart your family

[Another year passes and Scientologists like Geoff Levin still can’t see their loved ones after their families have been ripped apart by “disconnection.” So, for this Father’s Day, we’re reposting the heartbreaking piece Geoff wrote for us two years ago.]

tonyortega.substack.com

I think there should be an association formed by everyone who has lost their connection to a parent, child, sibling or spouse to Scientology, who could stand together over all media to say, "Thinking about getting involved in Scientology without being informed of the ultimate consequences? This is what its done to all of us".

 

[I M Dex]

I think there should be an association formed by everyone who has lost their connection to a parent, child, sibling or spouse to Scientology, who could stand together over all media to say, "Thinking about getting involved in Scientology without being informed of the ultimate consequences? This is what its done to all of us".

I would definitely add to that list family members who have eventually reunited, and can tell their story.