Combating Bigotry & Hate
June 19, 2021
Juneteenth: Confronting Our Past
Juneteenth marks the final recognition of a people as human beings, possessed of souls and free will.
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
June 17, 2021
Hate for Profit: Kimberly-Clark Sponsors Defamation of Religion
The famous brand of facial tissue is sponsoring this defamatory crap? Yes. It. Is.
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Scientology Religion
June 16, 2021
What It’s Like Aboard the Freewinds
I distinctly remember the first time I set foot inside a Church of Scientology. I was immediately struck by how friendly and...
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Religious Literacy
June 16, 2021
What You Probably Didn’t Know About Islam
Because of their common ancestry, the three Abrahamic religions share a deeper bond than many acknowledge. Islam’s earliest...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
June 13, 2021
Why the Chicken Crossed the Road: A Fable About Hate & Redemption
Investigations were done. Most were biased and simply reinforced the rumors. A very few were honest attempts to understand...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
June 7, 2021
Why I Admired Kohler Before I Learned They Pay for Hate
While fellow advertisers acknowledged our concerns and have chosen to reach their audience by supporting more responsible...
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Media & Ethics
June 4, 2021
Why Does The Mercury News Attack Its Own Community?
The San Francisco Bay Area is home to people of many religions. Among them are many thousands of Scientologists, who frequent...
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Religious Freedom
June 3, 2021
Why Our Houses of Worship Matter
Like many Americans, I tend to take for granted that we have religious freedom in this country.
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Media & Ethics
June 3, 2021
How Martha Ross’ Bigotry Inspired Me to Cancel My Subscription to The Mercury News
I’ve been a South Bay resident for nearly 40 years and subscribed to The Mercury News, but since it and you continue to...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
June 2, 2021
Arm & Hammer: It’s Time to Live Up to Your “Standard of Purity”
Since when does a “standard of purity” entail wholesale backing of hate-ridden dirty rags?
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
June 2, 2021
Four Words for the Mercury News: Knock Off the Hate
In its heyday, this paper was thick and heavy with hard news written and edited by prize-winning journalists.
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
June 2, 2021
I Used to Promote Skechers. Now I’m Calling Out Their Support of Hate Instead.
Imagine what a slap in the face it was to see that Skechers has been financing hate against my religion.
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
June 1, 2021
One Century Later, What the Tulsa Massacre Can Tell Us About Today
As we confront a 10-year high in hate crimes, the 1921 destruction of a vibrant and prosperous Black neighborhood in Tulsa,...
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Religious Literacy
May 24, 2021
Religions Fight for Freedom
Today we think of apartheid’s end in 1994 as inevitable. But it took the concerted efforts and sacrifice of many for 50...
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Religious Freedom
May 20, 2021
Bipartisan Report Shows Severe Curtailment of Religious Freedom Internationally
There is a lot to deal with to set things right and bring about true religious freedom in the world.
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Religious Freedom
May 19, 2021
Why We’re Rejoicing as Houses of Worship Reopen
What the pandemic showed me is that we can no longer take our faith and congregations for granted. A time may come again where...
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Media & Ethics
May 17, 2021
The Guardian’s Marina Hyde Spews Baseless Offensive Content
Ms. Hyde has a history of incurring legal expenses for her superiors at The Guardian. Sir Elton John sued the publication...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
May 11, 2021
Why Hate Is Hate: One Woman’s 15 Minutes of Fame
At this point, I know I shouldn’t be surprised. But every time it happens, I am. Someone degrades my religion for clickbait.
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
May 11, 2021
On Hollis Jane Andrews’ Anti-Scientology Discrimination
It never ceases to amaze me that some grown adults starve so much for attention that they stoop to grade-school-level gossip...
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Religious Literacy
May 11, 2021
The Fourth Pillar of Islam—My Experience of Ramadan
It was Ramadan and they instinctively wanted to share their good food with neighbors, just like they were used to doing back...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
May 11, 2021
An Open Letter to Daily Beast Bigot Marlow Stern
Undoubtedly you were surprised that Mr. Whitaker mentioned this Scientologist was a friend and went on to give his take on...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
May 6, 2021
Where the Hate Is Coming From
A few bigoted individuals have used the pandemic as an excuse to spread hate against Asian Americans. By the same illogic...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
May 5, 2021
Why Bigoted A360 Media Tabloids Should Meet Their End, and Soon
Regardless of the form, such scandalmongers pander to some of the baser human traits, the thirst for gossip, rumor and bad...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
May 4, 2021
CounterPunch Deals the Gateway Drug to Bigotry
Reducing hundreds of thousands of sincere individuals to a sneering allusion at the end of a snide put-down is not journalism,...
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Scientology Religion
April 29, 2021
A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats—My Personal Account of Scientology Leader Mr. David Miscavige
It turns out that we were about to hear an extraordinary update on a project involving tens of thousands of hours from Church...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
April 23, 2021
Jeffrey Augustine: Anatomy of an Internet Bigot
Just as criminologists have developed profiles of common traits for individuals like serial killers, mass murderers, terrorists,...
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