LILLIAN Ladele, the Christian registrar who was told to perform same-sex civil partnerships or face dismissal, has lost her religious discrimination case at the Court of Appeal. Lawyers acting for Ladele say she intends to fight on, and will appeal to the Supreme Court, the UK’s highest court. She originally won a religious discrimination case [...]
UNLESS physical injury or civil disorder is involved, no! But at the heart of a trial that opened yesterday in Liverpool are the “hurt feelings” of a Muslim convert who claims to have been abused by a pair of dotty Christian fundies who ran the hotel at which she was staying earlier this year. Ericka [...]
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CREEPY evangelist Ted Haggard, whose enormous influence and power in the US once rested on a foundation of bigotry and homophobia, is trying desperately to wheedle his way back into public favour. The former pastor, who headed the National Association of Evangelicals, and ran the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, fell spectacularly from grace [...]
A SEXUALLY explicit illustrated The Book of Genesis by controversial artist Robert Crumb, which features Bible characters bonking, has upset that bastion of barminess, the Christian Institute. The book, which is released this month, carries the warning “adult supervision recommended for minors”, and is described as “scandalous satire” by its publishers, according to The Telegraph. [...]
SCOTLAND’S annual celebration of gay culture, Glasgay!, is scheduled to take place in Glasgow between October 8 and November 8 this year – and the Christian Institute is less than ecstatic over a play in the festival portraying Jesus as a transsexual called Jesus, Queen of Heaven. Publicity for the show describes it thus: Jesus [...]
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THIS is the tearful face of another of those damn self-serving Christians who have been inundating the media with woeful tales of “persecution”. A week or so ago, the Telegraph reported on the case of poor, put-upon Jennie Cain, whose five-year-old daughter Jasmine had apparently been banished to the naughty step for “discussing heaven and [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
