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Re: Mayim Bialik: Homosexual infected Hollywood is not friendly to people of faith

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On Thursday, December 17, 2015 at 9:28:50 PM UTC-8, The Gay Disease wrote:
> Mayim Bialik is best know for her role as "Blossom" on the NBC 
> sitcom of the same name and as the quirky Amy Farrah Fowler on 
> "The Big Bang Theory," but the 39-year-old is also known as a 
> person of faith in Hollywood. 
> 
> Bialik has consistently used her celebrity as a platform to 
> support causes that are important to her and to share her 
> message of modesty with her fans. At times that means upsetting 
> a few people here and there. 
> 
> Bialik, who is Jewish, recalled a recent trip to Israel that 
> caused quite a stir on social media. 
> 
> "I've gotten a lot of negative attention for visiting Israel," 
> she told FOX411. She was visiting a friend in the Israel Defense 
> Forces. "That’s what's amazing...simply by going to Israel this 
> summer and saying nothing more than, 'I've gone to Israel,' I 
> got the same amount of hatred and threats and anti-Semitism for 
> actually making a statement trying to support people whether I 
> like it or not are serving in an army." 
> 
> She continued, "That reveals the truth. It really doesn’t matter 
> what I support or believe the fact that I'm Jewish and go there 
> is enough – that should be alarming to most people." 
> 
> While the threats she received were from fans, Bialiak said the 
> entertainment industry isn't friendly to people of faith either. 
> 
> "I think in general it's never going to be trendy to be 
> observant or religious in Hollywood circles," she said candidly. 
> "There are people I know of faith and we tend to congregate 
> together. I study Jewish texts weekly. That's something really 
> positive to me when you're a person of faith, it stays with you 
> all the time." 
> 
> The California-native explained that while she doesn't like "the 
> bureaucracy of organized religion," she does "believe in a power 
> greater than" herself. 
> 
> "I have an unwavering faith in a power greater than myself and I 
> don't think that will change any more than my belief in gravity 
> will change," she stated. "In terms of observance, my social 
> media shuts down for [the Sabbath] and sometimes we go to 
> synagogue, sometimes we stay at home and we do [Sabbath 
> dinners]...I believe in [Jewish law] but I also believe in the 
> permeability and changeability in the structure of Jewish law 
> and I think Judaism has always adjusted to the times that it 
> lived in and it’s adjusting in the time we are in now." 
> 
> Bialiak said her belief in God is often questioned by people who 
> point to her degree in neuroscience and ask how she can believe 
> in both God and science. 
> 
> "Being a scientist and a person of faith, people want to know 
> how that is. It leads to a lot of interesting conversations that 
> I welcome but a lot of people want to open up a conversation 
> just to tell you, you're wrong." 
> 
> One aspect of Judaism the mom-of-two values is modesty. 
> 
> "Being a modest dresser, that for me is a certain amount of my 
> religious faith -- privacy and chastity. Just because I have a 
> body, doesn’t mean it means to be on display." 
> 
> Bialiak dislikes being labeled as "prude" just because she 
> "doesn't dress the way everyone else dresses." 
> 
> "It's important, especially for children and men and my sons to 
> hear I'm not ashamed of my body, I just don’t feel the need to 
> display it with two tiny pieces of fabric when I want to go 
> swimming." 
> 
> Modesty is just one topic the actress plans on discussing on her 
> new lifestyle site, GrokNation.com. 
> 
> "I am who I am and it just kind of happened the fact that I'm a 
> public person but there are a lot of other parts to me," Bialik 
> said. 
> 
> She decided to launch the website to share her beliefs but don't 
> expect it to be anything like Gwyneth Paltrow's GOOP. "This is 
> not like other celebrity websites." 
> 
> As for what fans can expect on the new season of "The Big Bang 
> Theory" 
> 
> "I don't know what happens except...our first episode of Season 
> 9 picks up exactly where Season 8 left off," she teased. "We 
> deal head on with all of the relationships and how they were 
> unfolding at the end of last season. There’s some really funny 
> stuff." 
> 
> http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2015/08/21/mayim-bialik- 
> hollywood-is-not-friendly-to-people- 
> faith/?intcmp=ob_article_footer_text&intcmp=obnetwork

Lol. Religion is the real disease.

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