Jeff Hawkins, a Scientologist for 35 years and a former member of the Church's Sea Organization, said that when he left Scientology in 2005, the Church forced him to divorce his wife.
Besieged on all sides by what it perceived as heretical stirrings, the church forced Galileo to recant his support of the heliocentric system in 1633.
Mark Thomas's sketch – Church Forced to Put Up Gates After Font Is Used As Wash Basin By Migrants – has gusto and attack and the most juicy passages.
She continued, "I have not heard of a single Catholic church forced to marry someone who has been divorced, or a rabbi forced to perform an interfaith marriage or an evangelical church forced to marry a couple who has been living together".
It has been suggested that the production of such works was spurred by the necessity of providing "ammunition" for the public disputations with Christian ecclesiastics that the church forced upon Jewish scholars during this period.
In the late 18th century, coddled anti-establishment Romantics patronised the tale of the rural boy-genius, before a Darwin-led assault on the Church forced the Victorian upper classes to cast around for another way to control (sorry, civilise) the masses.
Ireland's then politically influential anti-abortion lobby – in alliance with the Catholic church – forced the Fine Gael-Labour coalition under the late Garret FitzGerald to hold a national vote to in effect make an embryo into an Irish citizen.
He stars as Martin Sixsmith, the journalist who helped the Irish woman of the title (Judi Dench) discover the truth about the son the Catholic church forced her to have adopted in her youth.
And unlike most shotgun weddings, it's not our families or the church forcing us to the altar.
In September, a man claimed that a teacher at his church forced him to have oral and anal sex in an effort to treat his homosexuality.
The Rev. Charles Coughlin broadcast his anti-Semitic views to a weekly radio audience of 40 million in the 1930s and '40s until the church forced him off the air.
