9:55AM STV | After getting through a remarkably quiet week without a single controversy or
racketeering lawsuit, the Church of Scientology was dealt another bruising body blow with
Isaac Hayes’s death over the weekend. As much as the Church is expected to miss the singer/songwriter’s hot buttered soul and totemic cultural presence, Hayes’s “friend” and generally unreliable Fox source Roger Friedman notes in today’s
touching eulogy how the Church wrung every last cent from subpar live performances after his 2006 stroke.
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