EVER hear of the Capitol Resource Institute? No? Well, neither had we – until we stumbled across this silly rant by the paranoid Californian pressure group (Motto: What strengthens families strengthens California). The barmy “family values” outfit is all of a-lather over what it sees as an endorsement of: Multisexual behaviour at all grade levels [...]
THE BBC has offered £30,000 and an apology to the Muslim Council of Britain following remarks made on Question Time by former Daily Telegraph editor Charles Moore. During a debate in March about Islamic protests which marred a soldiers’ homecoming parade in Luton, Moore, a panellist on the programme, accused the Muslim organisation of failing [...]
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GOOD news from Texas – the creationist nutter who heads the State Board of Education has been ousted. A vote in the Texas State Senate yesterday fell short of the two-thirds majority Don Mcleroy, a dentist and Sunday school teacher, needed to retain his position as head of an education board that has been described [...]
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THE trial of a Turkish author charged with inciting religious hatred in a novel about Islam published last year has been postponed until June 25. Nedim Gürsel, who lives in Paris, denies blasphemy, saying that his book – The Daughters of Allah – is a work of fiction, but the result of extensive research and [...]
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YOU can always trust Christians to muddy the waters of tolerance – and they did so with a vengeance in normally liberal California when a coalition of religious zealots, helped largely by the Mormons, spent millions to drum up support for Proposition 8, which successfully overturned gay marriage in that state. Yesterday, the California Supreme [...]
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HERE is a letter written recently to “agony aunt” Margo Howard, daughter of Ann Landers. Dear Margo: Our daughter started college a year ago, and we’ve noticed during her visits home that she’s not the sweet, innocent girl we sent away for higher learning. We raised her with strong Christian beliefs, but lately she’s saying [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
