IN four day’ time, on May 17, President Barack Obama will deliver the commencement address at the Notre Dame University in Indiana – and the hysteria among “pro-lifers” opposed to his appearance at this leading Catholic institution has to be seen to be believed. A group called Operation Rescue has issued an “action alert” in [...]
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POPULAR Miami priest and media personality – the Rev Alberto Cutie – is a man in love. And yesterday, according to this report, he said her was thinking of leaving the Roman Catholic Church for the unnamed woman after a magazine ran pictures of the couple kissing and hugging. But Rev Cutie (pronounced KOO’-tee-ay) told [...]
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HE has been described as the “ideal man” for the job of minister at Queen’s Cross kirk in Aberdeen – but the Rev Scott Rennie’s appointment to the post has set Scottish Christians at one another’s throats. The row escalated at the weekend when the Free Church of Scotland posted a link on its website [...]
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JAMES Corbett, the Capistrano Valley High School teacher found guilty by a federal judge in California of violating the First Amendment’s establishment clause by disparaging creationism, put his side of the case in an article yesterday in Open Salon. Corbett wrote: Every teacher who makes a student think takes the risk that he will be [...]
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OMER Butt, a Manchester dentist, is facing disciplinary action for the second time in two years for insisting that his Muslim patients wear appropriate Islamic gear when being treated – “in order to protect his honour”. According to this report, at least two patients were left in pain after they declined to follow the rules [...]
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CHURCH leaders have never been happy with the works of controversial German anatomist Gunther von Hagens – and his latest exhibition in Berlin, Cycle of Life – has upset them even further, according to the Guardian. For it features a couple of cadavers in full coital mode. When von Hagens took his earlier Body Worlds [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
