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 – [...]
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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THE UK’s first TV ad campaign for abortion services airs tonight on Channel 4 at 10.10pm – and the fundies are besides themselves with rage. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSH6wLDoE1w[/youtube] Ahead of the screening of the Marie Stopes International (MSI) ad, the Christian Institute garnered a fine crop of foam-flecked comments from furious religious opponents. Said Anthony Ozimic, a [...]
IN a statement that has outraged advocates of the disabled, Virginia state delegate Bob Marshall claimed that disabled children are “special punishment” for women who have abortions, particularly in their first pregnancy. Marshall recently co-sponsored the infamous Virginia anti-gay-marriage amendment, which prompted Virginia Log Cabin Republicans President David Lampo to say: Marshall is just, I [...]
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WATCH this amazing interview with Pastor Steven L Anderson, founder of the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up1a1zKqbAk[/youtube] At the end of his rant on the Michelangelo Signorile radio show in the US, Anderson says he would prayer for the interviewer to die of brain cancer. Nice! If you’ve the stomach for it, [...]
THE decision to stage a “grandiose public funeral celebrating the life of pro-abortion extremist Senator Ted Kennedy” has caused a rift in the Catholic Church in North America, according to LifeSite News. The frothing fundamentalist site claims that several prominent Catholic priests in the pro-life movement as well as other Catholic pro-life leaders have slammed [...]


The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 