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Why Scientologists Fight for Religious Freedom
Every individual has a private door to his spirit. But he must have the freedom to open that door.
Why the United States Is Concerned About Religious Freedom in Nigeria
The penalties carried out for what have been deemed offenses can vary from extended prison sentences, public lashings and amputations to more severe punishments such as stoning or death by hanging.
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Why Tolerance Is Not Enough. #respectfaith
When I was a child in France, the word “culte” just meant “worship.” Still does. In fact, when intolerant types there want to disapprove of some faith, they have to call it a “secte.” Of course, in the USA a cult can be anything from “the cult of skinny jeans” to some dark, authoritarian thing.
Why USCIRF Calls it Genocide: How the Burmese Military Is Persecuting Rohingya Muslims
With a stroke of the pen, an entire people assumed the status of aliens, invaders, stateless and rightless, with targets on their backs.
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Why You Should Be Worried About the Separation of Church and State
A “freedom of religion” based on intolerance toward all but one or two religions is not acceptable in a free and tolerant society.
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Will the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Sex Discrimination Affect Religious Freedom?
The case has drawn considerable attention not only because of the fate of plaintiff Gerald Bostock, a Clayton County employee fired by his superiors after they learned he’d joined a gay softball league, but because of fears that, in the words of the main dissenting opinion, the Court’s decision “will threaten freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and personal privacy and safety.”
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Children that have grown up in Scientology
Why don’t you do a story that has some originality and feature actual currently practicing Scientologists and find out why people practice the religion to begin with?
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Your article is anti-religious and bigoted
We respect your right to freedom of speech and the press. You should respect the rights of Scientologists to freedom of religion and association. Bigotry of any kind has no place in a free democratic society.
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Don’t denigrate the faith of others.
You took at face value claims made by former sitcom actress turned obsessed anti-Scientologist who now gets paid to smear her former faith.
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STAND to the Daily Beast’s Sandy Boone: Respect Others’ Freedoms, Too
I would tell you that it is a free country and you and all other supporters and members of the Church of the Subgenius are entitled to a sense of humor, but you already know that and are already exercising those rights and freedoms.
