A $1.4-million damages award this week to an Oregon man has severely dented the reputation of the Boy Scout movement in America, and the Church of Latter Day Saints. A Portland jury awarded damages to Kerry Lewis, 38, after the court heard of the abuse he suffered at the hands of Timur Dykes, an assistant [...]
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THE Church of Latter Day Saints is experiencing a spot of bother in the US over its shameful involvement in California’s anti-gay Proposition 8. Realising last month that few members outside this exceedingly well-heeled cult had the foggiest idea of what Mormons actually believed, I did some research for the August print edition of the [...]
GAY couple Matt Aune, 28 and his partner, Derek Jones, 25, felt the full fury of Mormon security guards when they exchanged a kiss on Main Street Plaza in Salt Lake City earlier this week. According to this report, several security guards rushed over and told the pair to leave the area, saying that public [...]
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A 55-year-old New Zealand man who beat his daughter over the head with a lump of concrete when she refused to go to his Mormon church “does not understand what all the fuss is about”, the District Court in Hastings heard this week. Uluia Muliipu appeared in court after pleading guilty to one count of [...]
YOU can always trust Christians to muddy the waters of tolerance – and they did so with a vengeance in normally liberal California when a coalition of religious zealots, helped largely by the Mormons, spent millions to drum up support for Proposition 8, which successfully overturned gay marriage in that state. Yesterday, the California Supreme [...]
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CALENDARS featuring hunky topless Mormons are the centre of an escalating battle between the Church of Latter Day Saints, and a former devotee, Chad Hardy. Hardy, 32, first clashed with the Church when he published his Men on a Mission calendar in late 2007. This led to his excommunication – but he refused to buckle [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
