WHY would any self-respecting gay person want to get married in a church? That was the question posed at the weekend by George Broadhead, secretary of the gay humanist charity the Pink Triangle Trust. Broadhead was reacting to a statement by Rowan (“Dumbledore”) Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who said that he will not countenance [...]
AN Anglican rector from London has been banned from working as a priest for two years after he was found guilty of sexually propositioning two gay servicemen. Father David Gilmore, of St Anne’s Church, Soho, in the West End of London, has been removed from office and prohibited from exercising ministry as a priest for [...]
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THE row over female clergy in the Anglican Church just got more bitter, with the Bishop of Lewes warning that there was: Real serious warfare just around the corner. Speaking at the Reform conference of conservative Anglicans in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, the Rt Rev Wallace Benn declared: I’m about to use an analogy, and I use [...]
ANTICIPATING a good helping of late night horror, a week or so ago I began watching The Order (also known as The Sin Eater) featuring the late Heath Ledger. Had I checked it out first on Rotten Tomatoes, I would have spared myself a tedious hour or so trying to make sense of the preposterous [...]
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A NEW church schools award scheme, which turns a blind eye to discriminatory and admissions policies regarding pupils and staff, has been slammed by the chair of the Accord Coalition, Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain. He said: Some faith schools do not discriminate on religious grounds in their employment and admissions policy, and instead see their [...]
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FOLLOWING the conviction late last month of an East Sussex vicar – The Rev Alex Brown, 61 -Â who conducted 360 fake marriage ceremonies at the church of St Peter and St Paul in St Leonards-on-Sea comes news that two clergymen have been arrested as part of an inquiry into sham marriages in London. The [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
