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    When the latest mass shooting occurs in your (my) hometown

    AUGUST 5, 2012 7:43PM

    By Mary Stanik


    Topics: tolerance, diversity, gun, milwaukee, wisconsin, shooting, sikh

    • Editor's Pick
    • 19 Ratings
    • 1600 Views
    • 28 Comments
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    Dueling Crazies: A Thanksgiving on Long Island

    NOVEMBER 20, 2011 2:53PM

    By Erica K


    Topics: not so heartwarming holiday stories, thanksgiving, dueling banjoes, camelot, christmas carols, jazz standards, mental illness, frozen people, family, kindness, tolerance

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    • 3 Ratings
    • 989 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    It’s Getting Better: How two kids could change the world

    MAY 27, 2011 6:01PM

    By Sarah Fister Gale


    Topics: tolerance, high school, bullies, old navy

    • Editor's Pick
    • 61 Ratings
    • 6336 Views
    • 72 Comments
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    How homophobia hurt a straight woman

    OCTOBER 11, 2010 4:00AM

    By Kat Hudson


    Topics: kat hudson, baltimore, homophobia, straight spouse network, wives of gay men, homosexuals, lgbtq, gay rights, same sex marriage, civil marriage as a civil right, equality for all, suicide, death, lies, deception, marital infidelity, pain, tolerance, fag, acceptance, coming out of the closet, national coming out day

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    • 26 Ratings
    • 2310 Views
    • 36 Comments
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    Fear and A Resolution to Ban 'Pro-Islam' Books

    SEPTEMBER 24, 2010 10:20AM

    By Catherine Forsythe


    Topics: books, islam, schools, christianity, religion, ban, tolerance, censorship

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    • 44 Ratings
    • 53747 Views
    • 112 Comments
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    Why We Need the Mosque Near Ground Zero

    AUGUST 24, 2010 6:12PM

    By koshersalaami


    Topics: hamas, rauf, terrorist, tolerance, ground zero, muslim, mosque

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    • 11 Ratings
    • 1682 Views
    • 19 Comments
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    Ground Zero Mosque: Are We Becoming More Like 'Them'?

    AUGUST 17, 2010 9:53AM

    By Dorian de Wind


    Topics: 9/11, prejudice, tolerance, qur'an, saudi arabia, muslims, islam, travel, politics, news, family, books, belief/religion

    • Editor's Pick
    • 45 Ratings
    • 3021 Views
    • 58 Comments
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    The Smell of Sin

    JUNE 15, 2010 10:59AM

    By Kathy Riordan


    Topics: foodie, food and drink, moderation, family, childhood, from sin to starbucks, sin, alcohol, lds scripture, doctrine and covenants section 89, joseph smith, word of wisdom, mormonism, health laws, tolerance, religion, coffee

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    • 11 Ratings
    • 4307 Views
    • 40 Comments
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    HOW GLEE IS CHANGING THE WORLD, ONE 12 YEAR-OLD AT A TIME

    MAY 14, 2010 10:51AM

    By Holly Robinson


    Topics: broadway actors, mothering, acceptance, tolerance, bullying, liberals, massachusetts, brittany, catholic school, mike o'malley, burt, chris colfer, santana, jane lynch, sue sylvester, kurt, rachel, cripples, celibacy, down syndrome, jonathan groff, jesse st. james, straight jacket, newsweek, glee, lesbians, gays

    • Editor's Pick
    • 25 Ratings
    • 8914 Views
    • 54 Comments
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    Sorry Miss. parents, prom isn't as wholesome as you think

    APRIL 7, 2010 2:40PM

    By Cathy Wilson


    Topics: intolerance, tolerance, decoy prom, segregation, wholesome, parents, mississippi, equality, lesbians, heterosexuality, homosexuality, constance mcmillian, prom

    • Editor's Pick
    • 87 Ratings
    • 4994 Views
    • 84 Comments
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    Confessions of a Former Evangelical

    JANUARY 19, 2010 9:43AM

    By Dennis Knight


    Topics: belief/religion, faith, tolerance, growth

    • Editor's Pick
    • 77 Ratings
    • 120309 Views
    • 128 Comments
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    American Public High School Stories: A Microcosm

    NOVEMBER 5, 2009 3:31PM

    By amittaizero


    Topics: fighting, teaching, high school, teenagers, tolerance, religion, violence, pacifism

    • Editor's Pick
    • 49 Ratings
    • 5913 Views
    • 35 Comments
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    It’s Not My Place to Forgive My Son’s Murderers

    SEPTEMBER 1, 2009 6:06AM

    By Kate Bishop


    Topics: forgiveness, belief/religion, family, jessie, grief, grieving, transcendence, addiction, murder, alcoholism, mental illness, trauma, compassion, tolerance, objectivity, rage, anger, spirit, angry is god too

    • Editor's Pick
    • 21 Ratings
    • 1821 Views
    • 24 Comments
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    To the Religious Lady in the Piano Studio Waiting Room

    MAY 11, 2009 1:20PM

    By reinvented


    Topics: open call, tolerance, really annoying people, fundamentalism

    • Editor's Pick
    • 9 Ratings
    • 1004 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    Abiding in Tolerance

    FEBRUARY 28, 2009 7:24AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: politics, tolerance, intolerance, pluralism, invasion, sovereign, sovereignty, liberty, freedom

    • Editor's Pick
    • 55 Ratings
    • 2855 Views
    • 65 Comments
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    Dear Parents

    JANUARY 11, 2009 6:10PM

    By Jess D. Facts


    Topics: sleepovers, tolerance, shot nerves, shot head

    • Editor's Pick
    • 6 Ratings
    • 1184 Views
    • 27 Comments
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    Daring to Do the Wright Thing?

    DECEMBER 22, 2008 12:07AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: intolerance, tolerance, united church of christ, church, same-sex marriage, gay marriage, gay, speech, speaker, invocation, rick warren, warren, reverend jeremiah wright, jeremiah wright, reverend wright, barack obama, obama, election 2008, inauguration, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 51 Ratings
    • 46010 Views
    • 115 Comments
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    Agnostic's Guide to Surviving the Bible Belt

    DECEMBER 20, 2008 12:15PM

    By Hillbilly Aunt


    Topics: belief and religion, liberal perspective, tolerance

    • Editor's Pick
    • 4 Ratings
    • 1313 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Racial Intolerance in an American Family - Mine

    NOVEMBER 17, 2008 5:40PM

    By Marianne Ruane


    Topics: interracial relationships, multiracial children, race, racism, tolerance, intolerance, rachel getting married, interracial marriage in film, dysfunctional family, family, movies

    • Editor's Pick
    • 8 Ratings
    • 1311 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    Can Prop. 8 survive litigation?

    NOVEMBER 6, 2008 1:10AM

    By Randy Smith


    Topics: proposition 8, california, same-sex marriage, human rights, gay, homosexual, rights, marriage, tolerance, oppression, condemnation

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