WHY would any self-respecting gay person want to get married in a church? That was the question posed at the weekend by George Broadhead, secretary of the gay humanist charity the Pink Triangle Trust. Broadhead was reacting to a statement by Rowan (“Dumbledore”) Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who said that he will not countenance [...]
ITALIAN police have arrested six Moroccan men, accusing them of planning a hate campaign against Pope Ratzinger. The six reportedly got the hump over the conversion to Catholicism of Egyptian-born journalist Magdi Allam in 2008. Allam caused outrage among many Muslims when he accepted a magic cracker from Pope Ratzinger, then changed his name to [...]
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A US-based fundie website that blamed Christcurch’s devastating earthquake on “lesbians running loose on the South Island as if they own the place” and general “amoral” behaviour, appears to have been suspended. When we tried to access the site this morning, a message appeared saying: The website you are trying to reach is temporarily unavailable. [...]
FROM 2014 Americans will have to purchase health insurance, or pay a penalty. This, according to a lawsuit filed by the American Centre for Law and Justice, a fundie organisation founded by loopy evangelist Pat Robertson, “violates the religious freedom of those who rely on God to protect them”. But yesterday in Washington US District [...]
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TWO Catholic bigwigs yesterday lay prostate in a Dublin cathedral, then proceded to wash the feet of eight victims of Church abuse. Worshippers looked on in silence as Cardinal Sean P O’Malley of Boston and Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin performed their act of contrition after hearing long sections of government reports detailing horrific abuse [...]
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BRITISH Education Secretary Michael Gove has openly urged Catholic schools to convert to Academies as a way of avoiding “unsympathetic meddling”by secularists. Critics of faith schools, argued Gove in an article for the Catholic Herald: Often misrepresent the Catholic school ethos as a mechanism of religious indoctrination and wrongly portray the admissions criteria used by [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
