ACCESS Ministries, the Australian state-funded fundie group that was forced to withdraw an offensive comic strip, then offered a grovelling apology for any ”damage or emotional distress” that it might have caused, is now at the centre of a fresh row. This tacky little Christian outfit, which has been given responsibility for religious education in [...]
THE Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams is said to bre very concerned at the news that a proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill is once again under consideration by the Ugandan Parliament, and might possibly pass into law tomorrow. According to this report, Williams this week reiterated his views – first expressed in 2009 after he was [...]
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THE New York-based Hasidic newspaper, Der Tzitung has had to apologise for removing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from a front page photograph. Clinton, as well as Audrey Tomason, the Director for Counterterrorism and the only other woman in the picture, were “disappeared” in accordance with the paper’s “religious beliefs”. Its policy is: Not to [...]
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IN a bid to create a world record, health officials in the Philippine city of Marikina yesterday mutilated around 1,500 young boys at a mass circumcision “party”. Said Vice Mayor Jose Fabian Cadiz of this barmy bid: We applied for the Guinness Book of World Records, and we are recording everything so we can send [...]
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A RECENTLY elected member of the Parliament of Victoria – Geoff Shaw – outraged one his young gay constituents by comparing him to a dangerous driver wanting to speed, or a child molester wanting to fiddle with kids. Shaw, 44, a Liberal Party MP, was responding to an email he received from tertiary student Jakob [...]
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A HOSPITAL in Charleston, Indiana, took legal action in regard to a patient whose husband who ordered medical authorities not to give her a blood transfusion. Although apparently no longer a fully practising Jehovah’s Witness, 58-year-old Charlestown resident Bruce Huff still believes it is a sin to receive any blood or blood products. When his [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
