Combating Bigotry & Hate
March 14, 2019
House Passes Anti-Bigotry Resolution
No matter what the politics were behind it, no matter what backroom deals and compromises spawned it, no matter what debates,...
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Scientology Religion
January 15, 2019
The Type That Rages Against Scientology
“This is classic,” I thought. This guy was the poster child for the usual type of person who rages against Scientology....
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
September 3, 2018
Disney: Oh, the Hypocrisy!
It’s almost like Disney wants to attack my religion. I mean, it claims to uphold “values of inclusion, tolerance, and...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
September 1, 2018
Disney & Remini: A “Tangled” Story of Lies and Doublespeak
Even the cynical staff at Disney and A&E would recognize that they had gone too far if Remini attacked their church, their...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
December 11, 2017
Why Is Scientology Treated “Unfairly?”
Cultures change slowly. I was born in 1945. When I was growing up in Washington, D.C., discrimination against African Americans,...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
October 31, 2017
Taking Action Against Discrimination: Harry Truman
“For these compelling reasons, we can no longer afford the luxury of a leisurely attack upon prejudice and discrimination.”
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
October 16, 2017
Who’s Next in the Crosshairs of Discrimination?
Understand, that if one innocent person or group is not safe among us—if one person or group is denied the freedoms that...
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Religious Freedom
August 23, 2017
STAND Member Reflects on Visit to Iconic Religious Freedom Site
Under cover of a January blizzard, Roger Williams left his wife and children, slipping away to avoid the men sent to arrest...
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Religious Freedom
July 20, 2017
A Case of Medical Discrimination
I took a survey yesterday about my recent experience in the hospital. I was there for a C-section for my third baby. One of...
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Religious Freedom
July 12, 2017
A Scientologist’s Great-Grandmother’s Poem
I was fortunate enough to know, and have wonderful conversations, with a truly fascinating woman—my great grandmother. Just...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
June 17, 2017
I Met a Scorpion Today
There are two versions of a well-known fable you might have heard. In the first one, a scorpion asks a frog to carry it across...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
May 24, 2017
Raising Our Voices—What it Means to be a STAND Member
Scientologists are, almost without exception, really nice people. That’s something you could say of most people and groups...
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Religious Freedom
May 17, 2017
Tell Someone. And Get Them to Tell Someone Else.
It has been said that if one person told someone about something, and then the next day that second person told someone else,...
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Scientology Religion
May 8, 2017
One of Those Scientologists
A few years back my husband and I took in a family member who was having a rough time. She’d been on and off drugs for decades—yes...
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Religious Freedom
May 3, 2017
How I Judge
Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, Jew, Buddhist, Lama, Muslim, Baptist, Scientologist and on and on and on the list goes. I...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
April 20, 2017
What is “discrimination” anyway?
I was born in Mexico and began my formal education there. Naturally, I studied in Spanish and, because I attended a Catholic...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
April 17, 2017
Where Religious Discrimination Never Happens
On the block where I grew up I played with kids whose parents were Holocaust survivors. What they endured was a terrible note...
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Religious Freedom
April 14, 2017
Freedom is Just Freedom
Historically, the human race has excelled in the fields of prejudice and discrimination. Historically, the human race has...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
April 14, 2017
I Will Not Tolerate Hatred
I have been a Scientologist for over fifteen years, and very publicly so. In working with my church and its members I am surrounded...
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Religious Freedom
April 11, 2017
What it Means to Be an American
I’ve studied the Constitution of the United States more than once and I love what our founders put in place for future generations.
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Religious Freedom
April 6, 2017
Know What You Fear
One of the most troubling emotions we deal with as a society is fear. Fear of the unknown, the undiscovered or the not understood...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
March 28, 2017
Another Holocaust
I’ve heard many people say that something like WWII or the Holocaust could never happen again. I beg to differ. If we aren’t...
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Religious Freedom
March 28, 2017
What Color are Your Eyes?
Discriminate: to make a difference in treatment or favor on a basis other than individual merit. If you have ever been discriminated...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
March 25, 2017
Which Scientology Books Have You Read?
Any longtime Scientologist like me has become inured to periodic lunatic media eruptions on the subject. They bring to mind...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
March 23, 2017
Why Stuart Wright is Wrong
I just read about Stuart Wright, the neo-Nazi hater of Jews, and God knows who else, who vandalized synagogues, and I’d...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
January 20, 2017
A Real Story A&E TV Doesn’t Want You to See
I run a website about Scientology and parenting. If you Google the terms “Scientology” and “parenting,” it’s the...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
January 10, 2017
It’s a Wonderful Life
Every Christmas I watch It’s a Wonderful Life with my family. It’s become a holiday tradition. Ninety-four percent of...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
January 7, 2017
Jews, Gays, Scientologists—Media Abuse and Bigotry
I am 34 years old. I was born and raised in Scientology. Both my parents worked for the Church of Scientology until very recently.
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