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Barry Duke on March 24th, 2009

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 to [...]

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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 national counselling [...]

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Barry Duke on October 23rd, 2008

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 pupils [...]

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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 rants [...]

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Barry Duke on October 17th, 2008

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 if so, [...]

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Barry Duke on October 6th, 2008

IN its dying days, the lamentable Bush administration is still managing to inflict damage through its stupidity and lack of logic.
We learned at the weekend that the US government is cutting its funding for the supply of contraceptives to family planning clinics run by Marie Stopes International in Africa.
The reason: because MSI, it claims:
Supports the [...]

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