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 [...]
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CATHOLIC Lena Wojdan is a Warsaw-based psychologist who, unlike Iris Robinson’s pet psychiatrist who thinks gays can be “turned around”, believes instead that homosexuality is “a burden from God” which people must learn to accept. They [homosexuals] need to accept that God created them as they are. This is something that they have been given [...]
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THERE was bound to be trouble when retired Sydney bishop Geoffrey Robinson published Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church last August, because it told the Catholic Church things they just did not want to know. So instead of dealing with the issues he raised in his book, it decided instead to disown him. [...]
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When it comes to possible advancements in science, it’s usually religionists who are first in line to complain. In this case, it’s the Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly and the new Welsh Secretary Paul Murphy – Catholics both – who are leading calls for a free vote on the UK Parliament’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. [...]
Stephen Green has become the answer to the lazy journalist’s prayer. Once again, he’s wheeled out to comment on a story that has no connection with religion at all. But, well, it’s about young people’s sexuality, ennit? So we call on a religious figure, don’t we? Duh! This national director of Christian Voice – and, [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
