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Presley defends Travolta’s Scientology beliefs
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 7 January 2009
Lisa Marie Presley has written on her MySpace blog to defend John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston’s membership of the Scientology “religion” in the wake of claims that this contributed to the death of their son, Jett Travolta, last week.
An autopsy found that Jett’s death was due to a seizure disorder. Some have claimed that the disorder, Kawasaki Syndrome, had gone untreated because of the family’s Scientology beliefs. Travolta and Preston say they took their son off his medication after consulting neurosurgeons.
Presley, herself a Scientologist, wrote: “Among most of the crazy made up garbage that goes around about it, it is not true that Scientologists ‘Don’t believe in medical care, medicine or medical doctors. Just like anyone else, if one is sick, they go to the doctor, If a medication will make it better then they take it. If they don’t then they are an idiot and you can’t blame their religion”.
She continued: “Whatever medical and or physical condition Jett had, I can tell you first hand that his parents were on a tireless, never ending quest to get and provide him with the absolute best care anyone could ever ask for and need, medically, physically, emotionally, medicinally and spiritually”.
Asking people to stop attacking the Travoltas and their beliefs at this difficult time, she concluded: “Folks, as popular as it has been to discriminate and ridicule Scientology and Scientologists in the recent past, now is NOT the time”.
