OH my! Hate preacher Dr Gary Cass sure landed a big ‘un for his mammoth “Let’s Bash a Homo” fest in Washington on Monday: British barrister Paul Diamond of the Christian Legal Centre, who fancies himself champion of oppressed Christians the length and breadth of the UK. Diamond’s presence at the rally must have given [...]
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THE BBC Trust today rejected calls for non-religious contributors to be allowed on Radio 4′s fatuous relic of a programme, Thought for the Day. Complaints were made earlier this year that banning atheists, secularists or humanists from taking part in Thought for the Day breached the BBC’s guidelines on impartiality. However, today the Guardian reports [...]
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JUSSI Halla-aho, an independent member of the Helsinki City Council elected to the council on the True Finns ticket, plans to appeal against his recent conviction of violating the sanctity of religion. The Helsinki District Court fined him 330 Euros. The right-wing politician who runs a popular blog insists that he did not intend to [...]
CREEPY evangelist Ted Haggard, whose enormous influence and power in the US once rested on a foundation of bigotry and homophobia, is trying desperately to wheedle his way back into public favour. The former pastor, who headed the National Association of Evangelicals, and ran the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, fell spectacularly from grace [...]
“A CACTUS pear,” I responded immediately, when the group in the pub turned to me for an answer. It’s extremely prickly on the outside and has a bloody thick skin. Then I remembered how much I loved prickly pears as a child (they grew wild in South Africa where I grew up) and suggested instead [...]
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INTEL, the world’s biggest maker of computer chips, said it would consider stopping production in Israel if ultra-Orthodox Jews continue their protests against the company operating on Saturdays. The BBC quotes Maxine Fassberg, general manager of Intel Israel: If there are continued protests or delays in manufacturing at the Jerusalem plant, the company will be [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
