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Father charged with killing his devoutly Christian gay son

Father charged with killing his devoutly Christian gay son

Los Angeles police have charged a father with murder, accusing him of killing his son, Amir, 29, above because he was gay. Shehada Khalil Issa, 69, has been charged with one count of premeditated murder as a hate crime. Police are still investigating the death of Amir Issa’s mother, who was also found dead in […]

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Cameron the theocrat

Cameron the theocrat

Let’s take a look at the last few days in Atrocities Against Random People Going About Their Lives. Sunday it’s Lahore, Pakistan, where a bomb went off at a crowded park, killing at least 60 people and injuring many more. There is speculation that Christian families out for the Easter weekend may have been the […]

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All our Easter Days

All our Easter Days

JAMES M ALEXANDER’s reflections on a ‘tarted up’ Christian Easter was  first published in the March, 1975, edition of the Freethinker.  … to misquote Shakespeare, for all humanity celebrates this annual rebirth of nature. Down the avenues of time, from the childhood of the race, has come similar rites of fertility and fecundity, worship of […]