AUTHOR
Edward Parkin, International Director STAND
As International Director for STAND, Edward Parkin oversees efforts in 58 nations aimed at combating bigotry toward Scientologists and the Scientology religion. A native of Great Britain and 38-year Scientologist, Mr. Parkin coordinates projects promoting and defending everyone’s right to practice their religion of choice.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
Initially filed by Ms. Breest on December 15, 2017, the lawsuit accuses Haggis of abusing his position as a member of the “Hollywood elite” to rape a woman less than half his age.
MEDIA WATCH
Leave it to ABC to cite to notorious religious bigots and racists as their authority on how to attack people working diligently to help children and adults recover their ability to study through L. Ron Hubbard’s Study Technology at Applied Scholastics.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
Many Scientologists and non-Scientologists have contributed their writing and their passion to the STANDLeague website since its launch in February 2017, establishing its vital role in fighting discrimination, providing truth, and dispelling falsehoods.
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
“The free exercise of one’s religious beliefs is the cornerstone of any free society,” said Edward Parkin, STAND’s International Director.
TOLERANCE
This latest disaster points to how many such horrific acts of unspeakable violence are now carried out against people in their houses of worship, regardless of their religion.
MEDIA WATCH
On Sept. 29, 1995 the Washington state jury found that Mr. Ross “intentionally and recklessly acted in a way that is so outrageous in character and so extreme in degree as to be beyond all possible bounds of decency and to be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in a civilized community.”
MEDIA WATCH
Rick Ross is an anti-religious hater. He was found guilty of the attempted deprogramming of an 18-year-old Pentecostal man in an attempt to lure him away from his chosen faith. The jury awarded the man at trial over $2 million in damages against Ross and his co-conspirators for the physical violence and other horrors they subjected him to.
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
One positive that has surfaced is the agreed-upon goal of all concerned to restore this iconic structure to even greater grandeur.
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
So clear were the facts and the law that the Court of Appeal determined that the museum had no further rights of appeal. The Court’s July 10 decision was final.
MEDIA WATCH
There is enough callous, hateful communication spread by unintelligent people on subjects of which they know nothing, for you to add more to that pile.
