
Combating Bigotry & Hate
December 1, 2020
Why Can’t I Be A Scientologist?
I gave her a polite reply, but I realized she succeeded in making me feel slightly ashamed for asking her. I realized at that...
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December 1, 2020
I gave her a polite reply, but I realized she succeeded in making me feel slightly ashamed for asking her. I realized at that...
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November 19, 2020
Board rooms around the globe, but particularly here in the U.S., must heed well the calls of diversity, equity and inclusion....
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September 30, 2020
I’m done allowing my church—my friends, my family, my community—to be the punch line, or the recipient of hate speech...
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September 28, 2020
It never ceases to amaze me that stupidity and arrogance so often go hand in hand, or in Pensacola News Journal columnist...
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February 7, 2020
It was one of those moments in which every single second seems to last a painful eternity.
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February 3, 2020
I actually saw this question in an online forum the other day: “If I wanted to start my own cult, how would I do it?”...
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March 14, 2019
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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January 15, 2019
“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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September 3, 2018
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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September 1, 2018
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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December 11, 2017
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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October 31, 2017
“For these compelling reasons, we can no longer afford the luxury of a leisurely attack upon prejudice and discrimination.”
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October 16, 2017
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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August 23, 2017
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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July 20, 2017
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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July 12, 2017
I was fortunate enough to know, and have wonderful conversations, with a truly fascinating woman—my great grandmother. Just...
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June 17, 2017
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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May 24, 2017
Scientologists are, almost without exception, really nice people. That’s something you could say of most people and groups...
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May 17, 2017
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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