Excuse me, but the Church of Scientology can go to hell.

No normally I'm not against an entire religion, even one such as Islam that gets the worst of the religion bashing these days.

"Tom and Katie are likely to follow the church's "silent birth" guidelines during delivery, which means no music and no talking during the birth, which also means no screaming during the pains of labor."

The article goes on to say "newborns cannot be poked or prodded for medical tests or even spoken to for the first seven days of their lives"... um, OK. So you spend 9 months inside your mother, hearing the comforting murmur of her voice, you go through this bizarre and traumatic experience and then no one talks to you for seven day? HelloooOOO?

Pardon me for being a bit judgmental. But Tom Cruise has some serious control issues. I do not for a second believe that he can speak with any sort of credibility on childbirth. He is soley concerned on what HE believes is right as opposed to what his partner wants. But then again the C of S defines the religion as "knowing how to know". So OF COURSE he knows what is best for his pregnant girlfriend.

ARGH. I can't even voice how distasteful I find this.