MOST people in Britain want Church of England bishops slung out of the House of Lords. A Yougov poll for the Sunday Times asked: Currently, 26 senior Church of England bishops are entitled to sit in the House of Lords and vote on laws. Do you think bishops should or should not be entitled to [...]
ARTHUR Skinner, a member of a splinter Catholic outfit in New Zealand, is unrepentant over his slashing of a billboard depicting a shocked-looking Virgin Mary clutching a positive pregnancy test. The scissor-wielding lunatic – of the Catholic Action Group – removed a section of the poster at the weekend … then took part in a [...]
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THIS week a new law come into effect that will allow legally-recognised same-sex civil partnerships to be registered on religious premises in England and Wales. But before you start cheering and popping the Champagne corks, be aware that the law could hit the buffers if a lunatic Christian peer’s “prayer to annul” succeeds in the [...]
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AN Adelaide priest, exposed yesterday in Pariament as an alleged rapist, has described his outing as “inappropriate and unfair”. Independent senator Nick Xenophon used parliamentary privilege to identify Monsignor Ian Dempsey after the Church declined to stand the priest down in connection with the alleged abuse of Archbishop John Hepworth. According to this report, Hepworth, [...]
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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AT LAST the C of E has done something really important to justify its privileged status as England’s established church: yesterday it has released a special prayer for worshippers to call on God to imbue Prince William and Kate Middleton with the strength to be faithful to each other. The new Anglican prayer, issued ahead [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
