TWO Christian crazies are in the news today: a street preacher in Taunton called Michael Overd, 47, and the Vatican’s “Chief Exorcist” Father Gabriele Amorth, 87. The former is on trial before Taunton magistrates for threatening a gay couple with hell, and the latter has just written a book – The Last Exorcist – My [...]
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THE European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has asked the British Government to clarify its position regarding the alleged violation of the rights of four Christian zealots. According to this report, the ECHR considers their cases are of such legal significance as to warrant further examination. The Persecuted Four are Nadia Eweida, a British [...]
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CHRISTIAN thinktank Ekklesia warned yesterday that repeated and unsubstantiated claims of anti-Christian discrimination: Only serve to make Christians appear defensive and obsessed with their own status. Commenting on the case of fundie Colin Atkinson, who faces disciplinary action from Wakefield District Housing (WDH) after refusing to remove a palm cross from the front of his [...]
COLIN Atkinson is an electrician working for Wakefield and District Housing, and he drives a company van which bears the letters WDH. But his insistence on displaying a palm cross on the dashboard of the vehicle gives the distinct and wholly wrong impression that this not-for-profit organisation is a Christian outfit, and his employers ordered [...]
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There is no reason in law why sexual orientation rights should prevail over religious rights. That’s the view of Christian Legal Centre barrister and fundie nutjob Paul Diamond, who announced this weekend that Eunice and Owen Johns have decided not to appeal against a High Court decision that ruled their views on homosexuality were a [...]
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BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron has incurred the wrath of religious bigots by saying that Christians must be “tolerant and welcoming” towards homosexuality. Cameron, according to this report, Â appeared to back the courts by saying Owen and Eunice Johns, who have been barred from fostering children because of their belief that homosexuality is wrong, had [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
