RUBBING their hands in glee, vindictive Christian fundies have been crowing for weeks over Christopher Hitchens’s cancer. This comment is typical of the badly written garbage that’s been posted on the internet ever since news of his illness broke: The militant God-hater, Christopher Hitchens, has been diagnosed with throat cancer … Hitchens is well known [...]
GREG Gutfeld, 46, is said to be the funniest man on American TV, but the host of the Fox News late-night program, Red Eye, claims he wasn’t joking when he announced on his blog this week that he planned to open a gay bar adjacent to a giant mosque in New York. Said Gutfield: So, [...]
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ANNE Rice, the author best known for her vampire novels, created a sensation last week when she declared on her Facebook page that she had “quit being a Christian“. Twelve years after her return to Catholicism, Rice said she still believed in God, but that: In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. [...]
AN 18-year-old Iranian is facing execution on charges of homosexuality in the Islamic basket-case of a country. Ebrahim Hamidi, who is not gay, was sentenced to death for lavat, or sodomy, on the basis of “judge’s knowledge”, a legal loophole that allows for subjective judicial rulings where there is no conclusive evidence. Hamidi had been [...]
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TENS of thousands of people will converge today on Brighton for the city’s annual gay pride event  – one of the biggest celebrations of its kind in Europe. Theme of this weekend’s gathering is Pride and Not Prejudice. Smaller numbers will also attend the first gay pride event in New Westminster, British Columbia, today [...]
THE leader of the world’s largest paedophile ring will be in Britain next month – and purveyors of crappy Catholic goods are hoping to make a killing with a range of monumentally awful souvenirs. The online Papal Visit store, for example, is offering a baseball cap, a jacket and a range of T-shirts bearing Ratzi’s [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
