A RECENTLY elected member of the Parliament of Victoria – Geoff Shaw – outraged one his young gay constituents by comparing him to a dangerous driver wanting to speed, or a child molester wanting to fiddle with kids. Shaw, 44, a Liberal Party MP, was responding to an email he received from tertiary student Jakob [...]
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THE Pope is a dickhead. Even the Vatican is beginning to realise what a disaster he really is. But he is by no means the Church’s only dickhead. Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor, President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, is another. His dickheadedness was exposed again last week when he reportedly wrote [...]
OH DEAR, here we go again …. Four months after devout Christian homophobe Lillian Ladele won a religious discrimination case following her dismissal for refusing to conduct same-sex civil unions, a relationship counsellor is taking the national counselling service, Relate, to an industrial tribunal. Gary McFarlane, a father of two who has worked for the [...]
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BRITAIN’S most tedious tosspot – fundie crackpot Stephen “Birdshit” Green – told listeners to BBC Radio 4′s World at One today that “condoms offer no protection” against certain sexually transmitted diseases, and that sex education lessons in schools are tantamount to “child abuse”. The ghastly Green was responding to a report that all state school [...]
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WHY, I wonder, do headline writers insist on using the term “family campaigners” to describe the likes of Stephen “Birdshit” Green, and the equally odious Catholic Tory MP Ann Widdicombe, when a far more accurate description would be “ignorance merchants”? The Telegraph did it again today when they turned to Green and Widdicome for predictable [...]
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NO, not Stephen “Birdshit” Green. He’s DEAD AGAINST the cervical cancer vaccine for teenage girls. But, while he may be an odious, puffed up prude with an aggravated god complex, he certainly has a talent for inspiring genius journalism. Like this, from Carol Midgley in The Times yesterday. Had the flu jab this year? And [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
