There is no reason in law why sexual orientation rights should prevail over religious rights. That’s the view of Christian Legal Centre barrister and fundie nutjob Paul Diamond, who announced this weekend that Eunice and Owen Johns have decided not to appeal against a High Court decision that ruled their views on homosexuality were a [...]
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A RELIGIOUS ritual known as tefillin, which involves securing silly little boxes to the heads and arms of Orthodox Jews with leather straps, caused a kerfuffle yesterday on board a flight from Mexico City to Los Angeles yesterday. The behaviour of three men who engaged in the ritual so spooked the crew that the pilots [...]
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AFTER a cache of hate videos, featuring sermons by Australian Sheik Feiz Mohammed, were uncovered by Oz’s Daily Telegraph in 2007, the Muslim preacher Â- then living in exile in the Lebanon – was told by Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd never to return to the country. But it is reported this weekend that the Sydney-born [...]
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AN investigation launched this week by the House Homeland Security Committee into Islamic radicalisation in the US has been likened to a new era of McCarthyism, and one commentator Â- James Zogby of the Arab American Institute -Â wrote in an editorial in a Pakistani newspaper that the hearings were going to result in increased [...]
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POLICE in Zaragoza are demanding answers from nuns at the convent of Santa Lucia concerning their claims that a million and a half euros went walkies last month. The police have ascertained that a break-in did occur at the convent, but have been told conflicting stories about how the nuns managed to accumulate so much [...]
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BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron has incurred the wrath of religious bigots by saying that Christians must be “tolerant and welcoming” towards homosexuality. Cameron, according to this report, Â appeared to back the courts by saying Owen and Eunice Johns, who have been barred from fostering children because of their belief that homosexuality is wrong, had [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
