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COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
Every Christmas I watch It’s a Wonderful Life with my family. It’s become a holiday tradition. Ninety-four percent of critics liked it on Rotten Tomatoes . The other 6 percent are miserable bastards.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
I am 34 years old. I was born and raised in Scientology. Both my parents worked for the Church of Scientology until very recently.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
On December 15, 2015, a hate crime was committed against our Church of Scientology and Scientologists in Austin. A 31-year-old woman, Erin McMurtry, drove her car through the front doors of the Church, obviously intending destruction and harm to Scientologists.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
When mosques in Southern California received handwritten letters over the Thanksgiving weekend that threatened genocide of Muslims, police stepped up their actions to stem the rise in hate crimes and incidents of bigotry. As reported in the Los Angeles Times, L.A.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
The FBI’s Hate Crimes Statistics, 2015 shows that hate crimes against Muslims increased by 67%, up from 154 incidents in 2014 to 257 incidents in 2015.
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
For an in-your-face discussion of the effects of religious extremism and intolerance, log in to the series of talks given in October 2016 by sociologist Massimo Introvigne to Ukrainian scientists, lawyers and journalists at the Scientific Research Institute in Odessa. Dr.
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
“Few issues in American public life engender more controversy than religion and public education,” says Americans United for Separation of Church and State. In the context of the 1960s, that meant the national uproar over Bible study and recitation of the Lord’s Prayer in public schools.
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
The Alarming Reality of Religious Discrimination “Talk about anything but religion or politics.” This old saw arose from passions inflamed by discussion of deeply held beliefs.
