THE bishop at the center of allegations of a gay sex plans to step down as the pastor of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Georgia after he delivers a sermon tomorrow. As many as 30 young men may now be considering suing Bishop Eddie Long. The pastor at the centre of a slew [...]
TWO Georgia men have filed a lawsuit claiming that prominent Atlanta, Georgia, pastor Eddie Long coerced them into sex. Long’s New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in suburban Atlanta once marched against gay marriage and hosts an “ex-gay” ministry. The suits, filed yesterday in DeKalb County, Georgia, allege that Long used his position as a spiritual [...]
FRESH from their defeat in the Duke Amachree case, the Christian Legal Centre is preparing legal action in defence of a pair of Blackburn bigots who were told by Lancashire Council that their homophobia precluded them from fostering kids. John and Collette Yallop had their application to be foster parents terminated by the Council after [...]
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. [...]
IN what looks suspiciously like an attempt to ape the activities of the Islamic world’s Commissions for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the Vatican has extended the powers of its Swiss Guard to impose a modesty dress code across the entire city state. Tourists entering St Peter’s Basilica have long been required [...]
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ABSTINENCE advocate Mark Souder – Â a conservative Republican Indiana congressman – is now history following revelations that he had congress with a part-time staffer named Tracy Jackson. Souder and Jackson recently had starring roles in an internet video show praising the virtues of sexual abstinence. In the November 2009 a video, Jackson introduces Souder this [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
