News
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
The Religious Freedom Act—the passage of which we celebrate today—established the office of the United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom and highlighted America’s responsibility to the world in guaranteeing Human Right #18, Freedom of Thought and Belief .
TOLERANCE
Kirstie Alley raised the question of whether psychiatric drugs lie at the base of this tragedy. The Las Vegas Review-Journal and other press reported that Paddock had been prescribed 50 10-milligram tablets of diazepam in June 2017.
MEDIA & ETHICS
Australian actress Rebel Wilson has won a landslide victory against mega media bully Bauer Media, publisher of Woman’s Day magazine, for a series of character assassination articles the jury agreed severely impacted her career.
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
North Hollywood, CA—The Church of Scientology of the Valley, which recently became the largest Church of Scientology in North America, drew over 600 for a United Nations World Humanitarian Day awards ceremony in August that honored San Fernando Valley community heroes.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
A teenage boy in India is taking on A&E executives Nancy Dubuc and Paul Buccieri in a grassroots campaign against bigotry, hate and inciting violence. After seeing on-air previews of Leah Remini’s reality TV show that spreads hate about the Church of Scientology, New Delhi teenager Ram Sharma said he was “sick of” Remini’s bigoted rants.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
STAND national director Bari Berger issued a statement of solidarity with the Interfaith Coalition and the mosque and encouraged all Minnesota Scientologists to help in any way possible. “This attack and any attack against any religion is deplorable and perpetrated by a godless individual. All religions standing together can overcome hate.”
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
Court Orders Hungarian Tabloid Ripost to Publish Correction of False Statement Against Scientologist
This is a landmark decision in securing honesty from media outlets and ensuring that they do not get away with falsely labeling individuals innocent of wrongdoing.
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
STAND is mindful that Hungarian Scientologists have also faced religious discrimination and have been subject to hate speech. STAND sincerely hopes that this atmosphere of religious and racial tolerance will expand and reach into all sectors of this country thereby helping to establish a new cultural renaissance from which all can benefit.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
Scientologists Taking Action Against Discrimination (STAND) appreciates that the German federal government has taken upon itself to more forcefully curtail hate speech on digital platforms, as reported in the New York Times.
