GIVEN the Roman Catholic’s despicable history of child abuse in Ireland, one would think that Church representatives would now be cowering shame-faced in a corner, and doing all they can to avoid drawing attention to themselves.
But no. Right now they’re all full of piss and vinegar over Ireland’s Civil Partnership bill which three RC bishops [...]
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ON March 4 we revealed that one of Scientology’s many front organisations, the Citizen’s Commission on Human Rights, was to have a presence at the Lib Dem conference in Birmingham.
Well, now they are not.
According to a message posted today by Hartley Patterson on the anti-Scientology blog, WhyWeProtest, the CCHR has been given the royal order [...]
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A BRIGHTON professor today sharply attacked Father Ray Blake, who earlier this week claimed faith communities in Brighton and Hove were being overlooked by politicians in favour of the “hedonistic” gay community. He also blasted the Roman Catholic Church, which he accused of distorting scripture in order to demonise homosexuality.
Writing in the Argus, Professor Sharpe, [...]
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A CATHOLIC priest in Brighton is quoted in the Argus tonight as saying that he can no longer vote Labour – because they are hostile to religion.
Father Ray Blake, of St Mary Magdalen in Brighton, said faith communities in Brighton and Hove – officially Britain’s most godless city – were being overlooked in favour of [...]
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SCHOOLS Secretary Ed Balls today denied offering faith schools an opt-out from new rules forcing teachers to address issues such as homosexual equality and contraception in sex education lessons.
Balls said that a bill being debated by MPs later today would introduce an “overdue and radical change” and that a controversial amendment tabled by the government [...]
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HAVING an unelected House of Lords in Britain is ludicrous – but even more objectionable is the presence in the Lords of 24 bishops and two archbishops
The House of Lords, widely seen as an elitist and out-dated institution that doesn’t represent the diversity of the UK population, needs to be reformed, and its unelected, [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
