THE Rev Donald E Wildmon, head of the of the American Family Association, hates porn. So much so that he cannot even bring himself to spell out the word, as this headline proves. The headline appears above an “action alert” calling this week on all True Christians to demand that senators reject President Obama’s nomination [...]
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RELIGIOUS right-wingers unhappily anticipated a bumpy ride when Barack Obama won the keys to the White House, but it’s unlikely that they would have guessed just how soon they would need to buckle their safety belts. In just under a week in office, Obama has infuriated conservatives in three areas – by reversing the imbecile [...]
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THE American Humanist Association yesterday placed an ad in both editions of a special inauguration issue of the Washington Post, praising the non-religious upbringing of Barack Obama. The ad is headed: President Obama: Living Proof that Family Values Without Religion Build Character. It goes on to quote from Obama’s own account of his upbringing in [...]
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A CURIOUSÂ caption appears under this photograph on fundie website LifeSiteNews today. It reads: Gene Robinson and his homosexual partner Mark Andrew. Talk about stating the bloody obvious. But why do it? If Robinson weren’t gay, and was pictured with a wife, would she be described as a heterosexual partner? Of course not! Leaving aside [...]
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PRESIDENT-elect Barack Obama’s choice of evangelist Rick Warren to deliver his inaugural invocation on January 20 infuriated secularists and the gay community. But now it seems that some hard-line fundies are unhappy at the choice too. According to Christian Voice (no, not Stephen “Birdshit” Green’s sad little outfit, but its American counterpart): Bill Keller, the [...]
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DAN Barker, co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, has joined with Michael Newdow – who fought to have the words “under God” removed from the Pledge of Allegiance – in a federal lawsuit to prevent prayers being uttered at Barack Obama’s official inauguration on January 20. Obama ran headlong into controversy when he recently [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
