TWO crazy Christian organisations renowned for their intolerance towards gay rights – and many other things besides – have combined to organise “A Day of Purity” in the UK next month. Hilariously, Stephen “Birdshit” Green’s UK outfit, Christian Voice, and Mat Staver’s US-based Liberty Counsel, have chosen Valentine’s Day – February 14 – to stage [...]
AN Anglican rector from London has been banned from working as a priest for two years after he was found guilty of sexually propositioning two gay servicemen. Father David Gilmore, of St Anne’s Church, Soho, in the West End of London, has been removed from office and prohibited from exercising ministry as a priest for [...]
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LEADING Dutch political cartoonist and illustrator, Peter van Straaten, has just been awarded The Ink Spot Prize for a cartoon printed in March, 2010 in Vrij Nederland. Entitled “Rape Cross”, his cartoon was said by the panel of judges to be: Striking, painfully funny and bitter. The Ink Spot Prize is a Dutch competition organised [...]
A GROUP of young Catholics has invoked the wrath of senior clergy in Mallorca by producing a calendar that features a nude version of the passion of Christ. The calendar features a semi-naked trio of young men raising the cross on which Jesus is to be crucified, and a Last Supper scene in which young [...]
BRITISH-educated Sherry Rehman, a journalist and a senior leader of the Pakistan People’s Party, is reportedly refusing to leave Pakistan, despite renewed calls by fanatical Muslim clerics to have her killed. Rehman incurred the wrath of Muslim fundamentalists when she called for changes in the blasphemy law. Last November, she submitted a private bill in [...]
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FILMS depicting religious characters may have the effect of “denigrating and devaluing” figures such as “holy” prophets, and “may be used to used as an excuse to ridicule them”. So says The Fiqh (Islamic Jurisprudence) Council, part of the Muslim World League based in Mecca, which warned that images – not of the prophet himself [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
