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Isaac Hayes was a lot of things. Legendary soul singer. Honorary king of a region in Ghana. And, despite his son’s current lawsuit against Donald Trump for using his music at MAGA rallies, a friend of conservative politicians who “did not view Republicans or the Republican Party negatively while he was alive.”
But perhaps the most important identity of Hayes’ life, which ended at just 65 years old in 2008, was as a member of the Church of Scientology.
When Isaac Hayes announced in a press release on March 13, 2006 that he was leaving the Comedy Central show South Park, he blamed the show's intolerance toward religion—but he notably did not use the word "Scientology."
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