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Westside Cares

Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 21 October 2013.

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Address: 1930 West Colorado Avenue, Colorado Springs, CO 80904
Email: Stephen.Brown@westsidecares.org
Website: http://www.westsidecares.org/who.phtml

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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tennessee: Why Muslims and the LGBTQ Community Should Be Allies

August 2, 2011

This year, two notable controversies have been brewing in Tennessee: a proposed bill that would forbid educators from using the word "gay" in the classroom, and a court battle to determine if Islam is a religion. (The verdict? Islam is in fact a religion -- for now, anyway.) These two issues may seem unrelated, but I believe they're actually symptoms of the same problem: our nation's historical difficulty with those who are seen as disrupting the status quo. Intolerance against Muslims and LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) individuals isn't exclusive to Tennessee. With...

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