AUTHOR

Roger Harrison

Roger operates professionally as a jazz piano player, singer, voice-over artist and bandleader. He is passionate about the importance of religious freedom and the dangers of religious bigotry.

Game Show Network Employs a Rape Apologist as Their Host?

Can you imagine Alex Trebek doing 1/20th of this and continuing to host Jeopardy?

Women’s History Month: Celebrating the Voice That Sang a Nation Into Change

When one thinks of women who pushed the boundaries of civil rights, one seminal figure is rarely mentioned. Her name was Marian Anderson.

MLK Championed Religious Respect, Too

Buddhism wasn’t the only religion that had a profound impact on MLK. A religious intellectual, MLK owned a copy of the Book of Mormon.

We Can Do Without Edgar Wright’s Hypocrisy

Being a musician, I’m always interested in fellow artists who chart their own path and create music that is truly representative of their unique world—not derivative of what is “hot” at the time or purely motivated by a desire for broad acceptance.

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 some of the issues being grappled with in the film.

The Looper’s Patrick Phillips Tells Us What’s “OK” to Hate

Let’s assume that Phillips wouldn’t say about Jerry Seinfeld that the director of his latest comedy special is excited to work with him “in spite of his being Jewish” or that Herbie Hancock’s new music is great “once you get past the fact that he’s a Buddhist.”

Pew Research Study Finds Christians Under Attack

If you live in America you might find this hard to believe. Most people here and in Western countries are accustomed to Christians being “the norm,” with religious bigotry and scorn reserved for newer or less “mainstream” faiths. But that analysis would be missing one critical element: almost all religions are a minority somewhere.

Family Guy’s Unfunny Religious Bigotry

Even though I’m not a Catholic or a Jew, I was offended by this faux “humor,” which in fact belittled sacred traditions. What is the message? That religious people are deluded and deserve to be mocked? To push such an idea out to millions is despicable to say the least.

Can Casual Bigotry End Lives?

Recently a 17-year-old white woman was discovered to be planning a copycat mass murder of Black congregants who attended Bethel African American Methodist Episcopal Church in Gainesville, Georgia.

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