RALPH Shortey is an Oklahoma state senator who this week got himself branded as “hilariously delusional” after he tabled bill that would ban the use of aborted human foetuses in food products. According to this report, the ridiculous Republican and ardent Christian pro-lifer said he filed the bill after reading that an anti-abortion group – [...]
A ROMAN Catholic bishop in Ohio has called on supporters of a breast cancer foundation to suspend donations because the charity may, in the future, turn to stem-cell research in its fight against the disease. Said Bishop Leonard P Blair of Toledo, Ohio: While we want to do everything possible to support the search for [...]
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AMERICAN pop singer Kate Perry, whose hit song I Kissed A Girl sent a frisson of horror among through the ranks of prissy US evangelicals, is now claiming that she had been robbed of her childhood by her nutcase religious parents, Mary and Keith Hudson. Perry, whose mum wouldn’t read her anything other than the [...]
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THE sound of Champagne corks popping over at Andrea Minichiello Williams’ Christian Legal Centre, is rarely heard, given the Centre’s enormous failure rate. But this week joy was unconfined when Christian health worker, Margaret Forrester, 39, who faced the sack after giving an NHS colleague a booklet about the potential dangers of abortion, was allowed [...]
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MEET Margaret Forrester, 39, a Roman Catholic who, according to the Christian Legal Centre, has become the latest example of “shocking intolerance” towards faith-heads. Forrester was effectively suspended from her job at the Central North West London Mental Health Trust because she holds anti-abortion views which she “shared” with colleagues, and showed them a booklet [...]
THE Britain Pope Ratzinger is due to visit next month was branded this week as a sex-obsessed “hedonistic wasteland” by an influential figure in the Roman Catholic church. Edmund Adamus claimed the institutions of family and marriage had been whittled away by 50 years of pro-gay liberal reformers. The aide to Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
