THERE is much wailing and gnashing of teeth in Roman Catholic circles in the US over the recent revelation that a Catholic priest, Father Anthony (aka Vincent Capretta), is a drag queen who performs as Big Mama Capretta. Not only that, the gay priest, from Columbus, Ohio, has a single that is currently No 25 [...]
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MANY Americans were shocked last month when a video was posted on YouTube showing a 16-year-old boy being roughly “exorcised” in a Connecticut evangelical church, where the “demon of homosexuality” was said to have been cast out of him. The video shows the boy writhing on the floor as at least ten people at the [...]
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TWO men have appeared in court after the suspected lover of a married Muslim woman in east London had acid thrown in his face and was stabbed twice in the back in a possible “honour attack”. The woman was warned that her own “well-being may be in danger”, a source at Scotland Yard told The [...]
WELL, whoop-de-do! – women in this oil-rich but sanity-starved theocracy are finally being permitted to sell … bras! This breathtaking climb towards the hitherto unscaled twin peaks of permissiveness and liberality occurred when 26 women began the first course of its kind on how to flog undies for females. It took place in Jeddah, off [...]
TEENAGE pregnancies and syphilis rose sharply among the generation of American schoolgirls who were urged to avoid sex before marriage under George Bush’s evangelically driven education policy, according to the leading US public health body. In a report that will surprise few of Mr Bush’s critics on the issue, the Centres for Disease Control (CDC) [...]
AN Islamic court in Malaysia has ordered the flogging of a Muslim model after she confessed to drinking beer at a nightclub in Kuala Lupur. Kartika Sari Sewi Shu-karno, 32, a part-time model, pleaded guilty of having a beer in a nightclub last year. According to this report, the Shariah High Court yesterday sentenced her [...]
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