A LEADING Baptist minister has been charged with molesting young boys during trips to America. According to this report, Robert Dando, 46, was arrested this week during a visit to Fairfax County, Virginia. He is said to have sexually abused two boys, starting when they were aged seven and eight, over a period of up [...]
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A MUSLIM woman is suing Disneyland, accusing the company’s California theme park of discrimination for telling her she could not serve customers if she chose to wear a headscarf. Imane Boudlal, 26, asked her employers at Disneyland’s Grand Californian Hotel several months ago whether they would permit her to wear a headcovering while working as [...]
A FEW weeks back, an episode of American Dad on BBC3 TV featured an attempt by the main character, Stan, to be a speaker at a Republican convention. When he is cold-shouldered, the diehard homophobe finds himself accepted instead by the local chapter of the Gay Republicans – with hilarious consequences. Funnier still is the [...]
FROM the sleepy Cambridgeshire village of Swavesey comes a report that a barminess of “born again” Christians descended last weekend on a 30-acre field to share the gospel of Jesus Christ – but wound up annoying the locals who were left stunned by the sheer number of god-botherers who swamped the area. According to this [...]
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THE Charity Commission, in a ruling published today, has again declared that a Roman Catholic child-adoption agency – Catholic Care – cannot discriminate against gay couples wanting to adopt. Earlier this year, Catholic Care, which serves the dioceses of Leeds, Middlesbrough, and Hallam, South Yorkshire, won a landmark High Court battle against the Charity Tribunal’s [...]
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PASTOR George Randall “Randy” Scott, of the Bethel Temple Assembly Of God Church in Bryan, Texas, has been granted bail of $5,000 after recently being arrested for allegedly pretending to be a teenager online to meet men, then blackmailing them into having oral sex. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBGd9GoXsQA[/youtube] But Scott, 51, told police that he was merely monitoring [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
