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COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
Living in diverse Los Angeles, you would think bigotry is the last thing I’d have to worry about in my daily life, but it’s not. That’s because I’m a Scientologist, and for most of my life, the press has been engaged in an all-out attack against my religion .
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
The First Amendment is a tricky one. It protects my right to practice my religion but also, to a certain extent, protects those speaking badly about it, except when that speech turns into anti-religious hate speech.
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
There are some people who think they know what Scientology is because they read a book “about” Scientology or saw a special on TV. Yet their ideas of it don’t match what I have been seeing and doing in Scientology for over a quarter of a century.
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
One of the most uplifting things about the human experience is when people suffering unimaginable loss choose to channel their grief and pain into something so constructive that it outshines the tragedy. A recent article I came across served as a reminder of this, and as an inspiration.
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
By Stacy Sass I was standing in front of my Church with my family and some friends, lingering and chatting after a particularly pleasant fellowship the other evening, when a couple of kids walked by and shouted the name of a famous member of my religion in the general direction of the group of us.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
Craig Reisdorf was the victim of a cheap reality TV show made by A&E, Mike Rinder and Leah Remini. They questioned his right to live his life as he chooses and to practice the faith of his choice.
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Just recently I was scrolling idly through some Internet news when I came across a statement uttered by some C-list actress whose only gimmick for getting her face in front of a camera these days is attacking Scientology. I never actually click on those headlines.
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Most of us will never have to die for our convictions. The question of whether we would be strong enough to stand up to a tyranny that would kill us for believing what we do never really enters our minds. But let me pose the question.
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Rather than using the third universe—the one we all share—to dominate others and impose our own sense of what is true and correct, what if we chose instead to use it as a neutral, sacred space where we meet and exchange ideas and viewpoints with dignity, respect and generosity?
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
It is then up to the rest of us, the majority of people, the decent folk who choose to live in harmony with our fellow human beings, regardless of their creed, to stop the rhetoric from going any further.
