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DISCONNECT
Jewish people should have disconnected from the Nazis during WWII. The Nazis were lead by an SP (Hitler). They should have also been allowed to disconnect. If given the choice of walking away from a fight or conflict or fighting, it is sometimes better to walk away (disconnect) rather than fight - especially if your opponent is bigger, more obsessed, or more forceful than you would want to be. Disconnection is common sense that has sometimes been occluded by the movies and popular ideas of behaviour.
L Ron Hubbard said this:
“The term 'disconnection' is defined as a self-determined decision made by an individual that he is not going to be connected to another. ... With our tech of handle or disconnect, we are, in actual fact, doing nothing different that any society or group or marriage down through thousands of years. ... We cannot afford to deny Scientologists that basic freedom that is granted to everyone else: the right to choose whom one wishes to communicate with or not communicate with." (10 September 1983).”
Many exscientologists chose to disconnect from a group they liked (Scientology) because they thought that SPs in that group made that group harmful. Other exscientologists chose to leave because they knew that they were harmful to the cause or beliefs of Scientology (their overts). Truly LRH was correct when he stated that people left the church because of overts - it just wasn’t always the overts of the exscientologist that caused the disconnection.
LRH said:
“You could chose on your own free will to stay together with a person who is hurting and harassing you. Scientology however does not support masochism or any kind of self-invalidation. Scientologists also do not appreciate to be pulled or held down. So they either try to fix the relation (handle) or cut it (disconnect). Sure the person on the other end sometimes does not like it, goes around complaining, in some cases blaming everybody else for his or her own condition. That won't do anything. But such a person always has the choice to become a tolerant and polite person, someone you like to be connected with.”
Of course it’s wrong for the church to accuse a parent - that is a social personality - of being an SP and insisting that the son or daughter never again talk to or see his parents. That is picking the wrong target. That is the characteristic of an antisocial personality.
It’s OK to disconnect from any church. You are welcome in the Freezone. Many in the Freezone believe in L Ron Hubbard and practice what he taught.