‘We have a god-given right to bad-mouth queers,’ says barmy British barrister

SHE’s back, folks – and she’s madder than a wasp in a jar!
[ADDAMS] Family Values campaigner Andrea Minichiello Williams – barrister, founder of the Christian Legal Centre, and possible inspiration for the phrase “a bulldog chewing on nettles” – is on the warpath again.
This time it’s the upcoming Coroners and Justice Bill that’s upset the [...]

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THE BBC has offered £30,000 and an apology to the Muslim Council of Britain following remarks made on Question Time by former Daily Telegraph editor Charles Moore.
During a debate in March about Islamic protests which marred a soldiers’ homecoming parade in Luton, Moore, a panellist on the programme, accused the Muslim organisation of failing to [...]

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THE trial of a Turkish author charged with inciting religious hatred in a novel about Islam published last year has been postponed until June 25.
Nedim Gürsel, who lives in Paris, denies blasphemy, saying that his book – The Daughters of Allah – is a work of fiction, but the result of extensive research and consultation [...]

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UPPITY Christian pup Chad Farnan, a teenage student at California’s Capistrano Valley high school, has notched up a landmark legal victory by persuading a judge that his European history teacher broke the law by “promoting, or displaying hostility towards, religion”.
Judge James Selna ruled that James Corbett’s remark that “creationism was superstitious nonsense” constituted “improper disapproval [...]

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WE at the Freethinker rarely get the opportunity to praise members of the clergy, but today we salute the Rev David Coleman, of the United Reform Church in Brighton, for allowing Dr Philip Nitschke to hold a public discussion on euthanasia  at the church-owned Brighthelm Centre yesterday.
True, Rev Coleman – in the face of strong [...]

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GEORGE Hargreaves, of the evangelical Christian Party, is a Grade A idiot.
But just how big a numpty this Bible-thumper really is only came to light yesterday when it was reported in Pink News that he had lodged a complaint with the Metropolitan Police against gay Tory MP Alan Duncan.
Duncan’s “crime” took the form of a [...]

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