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Combating Bigotry & Hate
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
You don’t know me, I know. But let’s just establish, quickly, that I am bossy, usually the loudest one in the room and the first person you’d pick if you were choosing an all-star team for charades.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
On the block where I grew up I played with kids whose parents were Holocaust survivors. What they endured was a terrible note in man’s history.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
I have been a Scientologist for over fifteen years, and very publicly so. In working with my church and its members I am surrounded by some of the most decent, friendly, intelligent, helpful, caring, hardworking (and did I mention funny and charming?) incredible people I have ever known.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
STAND is an amazing platform. It is the first forum of its kind where you can hear directly from Scientologists about what it is REALLY like to be one and discover just how inaccurate the media really is.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
It doesn’t matter if one celebrity likes Scientology. It doesn’t matter if another one hates it. The people who live their lives celebrity-watching are not likely to make an effort to improve themselves, period.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
On February 22, a murder in Kansas drew national attention. Srinivas Kuchibhotla, who had moved from India to the United States to study aviation engineering, was relaxing in a bar with a friend. A man started shouting racial slurs at the pair and told them to “ get out of [his] country.“
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
Most people are born good. Most people are born with an innate sense of decency, a good concept of justice, and an inborn understanding of right and wrong, One of the first things you’ll hear out of a child’s mouth is “It’s not fair.” Nobody has to teach them of the principle of fairness.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
I learned one of the most important lessons of my life in my early 30s. I spent my teens and 20s with a storybook, romantic idea of love. “Love is something that happens to you. You fall in or out of love, almost like having some sort of accident.“
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
I’ve heard many people say that something like WWII or the Holocaust could never happen again. I beg to differ. If we aren’t all vigilant in protecting our own freedoms and everyone’s human rights, it very well could happen again.
