FOREVER poking it’s nose into matters that shouldn’t concern it, the Christian Institute has notched up another legal failure – this time in regard to its efforts to shut down the delightfully-named Mrs Palm sex shop in Truro, Cornwall. Earlier this year the High Court, according to this report, threw out a case brought by [...]
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DALE McAlpine, a 42-year-old Baptist from Wokington in Cumbia was charged at the weekend with causing “harassment, alarm or distress” after a gay police community support officer (PCSO) overheard him reciting a number of “sins” referred to in the Bible, including blasphemy, drunkenness and same sex relationships. But the town’s resident crank, who has been [...]
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POP over to the Christian Legal Centre today, and you will find much wailing and gnashing of teeth over the refusal by Lord Justice Laws to grant Gary McFarlane permission to have his case heard before the Court of Appeal. McFarlane, a relationships counsellor from Bristol, was sacked by the Relate Relationship organisation after he [...]
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GIVEN the Roman Catholic’s despicable history of child abuse in Ireland, one would think that Church representatives would now be cowering shame-faced in a corner, and doing all they can to avoid drawing attention to themselves. But no. Right now they’re all full of piss and vinegar over Ireland’s Civil Partnership bill which three RC [...]
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SOUR faces all round over at the Christian Institute, where news that the UK Supreme Court has refused permission for an appeal in the case of Lillian Ladele has caused great misery. Ladele is the Christian registrar who was disciplined by Islington Council in London because of her stance on civil partnerships. According to the [...]
THE BBC has been accused of applying the “David Attenborough” effect to Christians. Religion, according to a submission by the Church of England, is: Always reported from the point of view of an observer of a fascinating and increasingly rare species, rather than explored as something of fundamental importance to the vast majority of the [...]


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