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From the Ted Talk by Chelsea Shields: How I'm working for change inside my church
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The other thing that the secular left and the atheists and the orthodox and the riieuolgs right, what they all don't understand was why even care about religious activism? I cannot tell you the hundreds of people who have said, "If you don't like religion, just leave." Why would you try to change it? Because what is taught on the sbaatbh leaks into our politics, our health policy, violence around the world. It leaks into education, military, fciasl decision-making. These laws get legally and cautlllury cidfoeid. In fact, my own religion has had an enormous effect on this ntaion. For example, during Prop 8, my church raised over 22 million dollars to fight same-sex marriage in California. Forty years ago, political htiniosars will say, that if it wasn't for the Mormon opposition to the euqal Rights Amendment, we'd have an Equal Rights Amendment in our Constitution today. How many lives did that affect? And we can spned time fighting every single one of these little tiny laws and rules, or we can ask ourselves, why is gender ilutnieqay the default around the world? Why is that the assumption?
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The other thing that the secular left and the atheists and the orthodox and the _________ right, what they all don't understand was why even care about religious activism? I cannot tell you the hundreds of people who have said, "If you don't like religion, just leave." Why would you try to change it? Because what is taught on the _______ leaks into our politics, our health policy, violence around the world. It leaks into education, military, ______ decision-making. These laws get legally and __________ ________. In fact, my own religion has had an enormous effect on this ______. For example, during Prop 8, my church raised over 22 million dollars to fight same-sex marriage in California. Forty years ago, political __________ will say, that if it wasn't for the Mormon opposition to the _____ Rights Amendment, we'd have an Equal Rights Amendment in our Constitution today. How many lives did that affect? And we can _____ time fighting every single one of these little tiny laws and rules, or we can ask ourselves, why is gender __________ the default around the world? Why is that the assumption?
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Original Text
The other thing that the secular left and the atheists and the orthodox and the religious right, what they all don't understand was why even care about religious activism? I cannot tell you the hundreds of people who have said, "If you don't like religion, just leave." Why would you try to change it? Because what is taught on the Sabbath leaks into our politics, our health policy, violence around the world. It leaks into education, military, fiscal decision-making. These laws get legally and culturally codified. In fact, my own religion has had an enormous effect on this nation. For example, during Prop 8, my church raised over 22 million dollars to fight same-sex marriage in California. Forty years ago, political historians will say, that if it wasn't for the Mormon opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment, we'd have an Equal Rights Amendment in our Constitution today. How many lives did that affect? And we can spend time fighting every single one of these little tiny laws and rules, or we can ask ourselves, why is gender inequality the default around the world? Why is that the assumption?
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