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I award you this barnstar for all of your anti-vandalism work. I have always seen you making edits and I think its amazing that you have compiled so many edits in such a short amount of time. I have only been here since June and this is the first time I have addressed your talk page but after seeing
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controversy section, which seems to simply be a vent against the organization. It contains a hodgepodge of criticisms only since 2006 (quite recentist), and they deal mainly with homosexuality, to the near exclusion of the many many other issues with this organization (political activism, alleged
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