The late science fiction writer and founder of the Church of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, will have a street renamed after him. The Los Angeles City Council voted early last October to rename a one block stretch of Berendo Street in Hollywood after the controversial religious leader.
In spite of objections voiced by local citizens, the council approved the name change by an 8-3 vote. According to the Religious News Service, the residents accused Hubbard of “being a bigot, a charlatan, and a cult leader who was biased against homosexuals.”
The church owns more than half the property on the one block section, and is the site of its international headquarters. The Rev. John Woodruff, executive director of the church’s Los Angeles branch, told the Los Angeles Times newspaper that the renaming of the “250 yards of street” was a “fantastic victory.”
Hubbard, who died of a stroke in 1986, founded the Church of
Scientology in the 1950s.
—MKG
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