Combating Bigotry & Hate
September 10, 2020
Leah Remini Exposed by Anti-Scientology Guru
If you won’t believe the Church of Scientology when it says Leah Remini is lying, perhaps you’ll believe Marty Rathbun,...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
September 7, 2020
Get With It, America—a Teenager’s Appeal for Religious Tolerance
With everything going on in the world right now, it is time to change. It is time to stop condoning discrimination of any...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
August 26, 2020
Why Would Anyone Attack Scientology?
When I first got involved with Scientology, I had to wade through misinformation to really understand what it was and what...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
August 13, 2020
Disney: It’s Time to Pull the Plug on A&E
The loss in viewership, attributed to A&E’s cancellation of its police show, Live PD, exposed a suppurating inoperable tumor...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
August 7, 2020
Who Are the People Who Trash Religion, Anyway?
A brief glance through the Renaissance reveals so many examples of art and architecture created in honor of and inspired by...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
August 1, 2020
Flipping the Bigots
When he awoke the following morning, #JewishPrivilege was again trending on Twitter, but not because of the anti-Semites who...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
July 13, 2020
The Real Divide in America, and Where We Go From Here
It sometimes takes an extraordinary amount of courage and patience—and maybe even what some would call grace—to allow...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
June 24, 2020
Scientology is Fun—The Sequel
That Scientology is fun is one of those things that’s so obvious and normal to those who actually know and practice it that...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
May 2, 2020
Twenty Million More
We sat in front of the rabbi that day in 1977, my wife and I, a bit sheepishly explaining how we had run off and gotten married...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
April 22, 2020
Bigotry: Nothing Funny About That
If someone were to make a list of the top 10 least funny things, “bigotry” would undoubtedly make the cut. There’s very...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
April 9, 2020
Mike Rinder’s Legacy
The simple truth is that Mike Rinder makes his living fomenting bigotry and hate against the group whose standards he failed...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
April 1, 2020
The Truth About Mariette Lindstein Is a Lot More Interesting
A violent, unstable and self-confessed liar and kleptomaniac, Lindstein joined the Scientology religious order thirty-some...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
March 17, 2020
Religious Stigma Isn’t Created by Your Neighbors
A poll found that 82% of Americans feel that it is very important for Christians to be allowed to practice freely, while only...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
March 15, 2020
Let’s Take Out the Garbage, Like Tony Ortega
The very bottom of the money-making barrel, in my mind, would be selling drugs or people. I don’t know whether Ortega has...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
March 2, 2020
Fighting the Erosion of Religious Freedom
Turns out they were attending a meeting of Baptist pastors at the hotel. Once we straightened out our respective denominational...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
February 19, 2020
Beware the False Prophets of Profit
Dr. Singer is long dead now, gone to whatever religion’s Hell will deign to accept her. But she has her disciples who carry...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
February 7, 2020
My Pianist
It was one of those moments in which every single second seems to last a painful eternity.
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
February 4, 2020
Next Stop: Tolerance
This is how it played out: At around midday on November 22, a passenger sitting in the train pulled out his phone to film...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
January 16, 2020
Who Loses When Scientology Wins?
Last week I had an unusual phone conversation with a client I’m doing some screenplay rewrite work for. He was somewhere...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
January 14, 2020
Are Christians Right to Protest Netflix’s “First Temptation of Christ”?
I made it 31 minutes in, to the scene that managed to insult Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Rastafarianism, and...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
December 30, 2019
Anti-Semitism and the Festival of Lights
When I was traveling through Arkansas with a business partner, our host pointed out a burned-out establishment and proclaimed...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
December 30, 2019
How Good People Can Become Bigots
If bigotry were simple, we would have already solved it. But it isn’t and we haven’t. So here’s a look at the roots...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
December 28, 2019
Is Intolerance on the Rise?
Then there have been a slew of high-profile tragedies including the New Zealand mosque attacks, the Easter Sunday bombing...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
December 27, 2019
A Tribute to Kayla Mueller
On August 3, 2013, Kayla Mueller was kidnapped by ISIS fighters outside of a hospital in Northern Syria. She had traveled...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
December 23, 2019
The Most Precious Thing
Nearly a thousand years ago a great army besieged a castle. Day after day, the army bombarded it with great boulders and flaming...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
November 30, 2019
Theophobia, Part I: Why a Hatred of Religion?
Religion has been in an international statistical decline. The religiously unaffiliated, otherwise known as "nones," are growing...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
October 10, 2019
Hope in the Face of Tragedy
We’re living in a time when it might be easy to lose faith in your fellow man. For centuries, the fearmongers have crowed...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
September 1, 2019
You Can Only Kick the Church Up—An Interview With LDS Member Steve Russell
There is nothing more personal—and, for many of us, there is nothing more precious—than the right to live as we believe...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
August 26, 2019
An Investor’s Open Letter to Amazon: Don’t Endanger Our Company by Sponsoring Hate
As a stakeholder, I’d like to know that Amazon’s Corporate Social Responsibility reaches far beyond just utilizing recycled...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
August 25, 2019
“Dear White People”: Practice What You Preach
What’s ironic is that a show that is so heavy-handed with its messaging about staying woke and ending discrimination against...
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