Pat,

It is hard to believe a premie actually wrote that here!  Premies have been using the argument since Elan Vital started promoting and supporting the inclusion of Ex-Premies in the Wikipedia Hate-Group article, and there have been rumblings of bigotry/racism in the article, as well as in the talk pages (by premies).  This is a small segment from the article that I found interesting, since EV's folks didn't object to keeping it in the text of the article.

The Foundation against Intolerance of Religious Minorities, associated with the Adidam NRM, sees the use of terms "cult" and "cult leader" to suggest that these are to be detested, avoided at all costs and see this as the exercise of prejudice and discrimination against them in the same manner as "nigger" and "commie" were used in the past to denigrate blacks and Communists[8] (http://www.firmstand.org/).

The Firmstand website is the creation of "The Practical Spirituality Press" which supports the work of "Avatar" Adi Da Samraj, (a/k/a Frank Jones, Bubba Free John, Da Free John, or Da Love-Ananda).  

EV now has to ally itself with other cults to strike out against ex-premies.