THE UK gay humanist charity the Pink Triangle Trust (PTT) has warmly welcomed unveiling on Friday by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh of a memorial at Bletchley Park to honour those who played a pivotal role in decryption operations during World War II, including the celebrated gay codebreaker and founder of the modern [...]
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OH dear, things appear to be going horribly wrong for Michele Bachmann, the religious wingnut who hopes to be America’s next President. First there was that little upset last week over a pledge she signed which seemed to support slavery. Now she’s up to her fundamentalist eyeballs – and what eyeballs they are! -Â in [...]
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AN official report into clerical child abuse in the Irish Catholic diocese of Cloyne stingingly criticises  Bishop John Magee, saying: It is a remarkable fact that Bishop Magee took little or no active interest in the management of clerical child sexual abuse cases until 2008 … It became clear during the course of this investigation [...]
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I AM always gratified to learn of people – especially youngsters – enthusiastically promoting secularism and freethought, which is why I always endeavour to publicise their efforts. The upcoming Questival, which I mentioned yesterday, is a prime example. But what really makes my heart soar is when I hear of diehard fundamentalists seeing sense, and [...]
QUESTIVAL is a weekend of camping and freethinking, run by the AHS – the National Federation of Atheist, Humanist and Secular Student Societies which is the umbrella organisation for non-religious student societies in institutes of higher education across the UK and the Republic of Ireland. The annual event provides a physically and mentally challenging weekend, [...]
WITH no apparent evidence other than a photograph of Spanish priest Andrés GarcÃa Torres hugging a young Cuban seminarian, the Catholic bishop of Getafe has leapt to the outrageous conclusion that there is something gay about two topless men in a warm embrace. According to this report, the bishop now wants the priest to abandon [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
