AMERICANS have become more accepting of homosexuality over the past 16 years, according to a new poll. Over half of those polled, according to this report, said they were in support of civil unions. The Pew Research Centre’s new report, released on August 19 and compiled from a selection of public studies done over the [...]
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THE Charity Commission, in a ruling published today, has again declared that a Roman Catholic child-adoption agency – Catholic Care – cannot discriminate against gay couples wanting to adopt. Earlier this year, Catholic Care, which serves the dioceses of Leeds, Middlesbrough, and Hallam, South Yorkshire, won a landmark High Court battle against the Charity Tribunal’s [...]
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ANNE Rice, the author best known for her vampire novels, created a sensation last week when she declared on her Facebook page that she had “quit being a Christian”. Twelve years after her return to Catholicism, Rice said she still believed in God, but that: In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. [...]
ARGENTINA today became the first country in Latin America to legalise gay marriage after the Senate voted in favour. The country’s Chamber of Deputies had already approved the legislation. According to breaking news, the vote in the Senate, which backed the bill by just six votes, came after 14 hours of at times heated debate. [...]
IN WHAT turned out to be the biggest anti-sharia law demonstration ever staged in the UK, hundreds of people gathered in London on Sunday to support the One Law for All rally to show their opposition to Sharia and other religious-based laws in Britain and elsewhere, and to demand universal rights, equality and secularism. A [...]
AND this evening, folks, we have another tale of a gay couple being refused accommodation in a bed and breakfast establishment – this time in the idyllic surroundings of Grand Forks, British Columbia. A refusal last year to accommodate Shaun Eadie and Brian Thomas by the evangelical owners of the Riverbend guesthouse – Susan [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
