MANCHESTER City Councillor Pat Karney is calling for Christian Voice protestors to be banned from future gay pride events in the city after a group of the nutters reportedly “disrupted” his year’s parade at the weekend. Disrupted? Oh please! How on earth can a sad bunch of around 20 delusional loons disrupt an event as [...]
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A CATHOLIC high school chaplain in Reading, Pennsylvania, is being sued by a local couple for impregnating their 18-year-old daughter, who had mental health problems. Rev Luis A Bonilla Margarito was secretly videotaped having sex with the couple’s daughter in the basement of their home. The lawsuit, filed this week in Berks County Court, alleges [...]
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WAY back in March of this year, Christian street preacher and wannabe MP – Paul Shaw, of Duffield Drive, Colchester – appeared at Colchester magistrates’ court charged with using threatening words or behaviour towards gays, which he denied. District judge David Cooper told him: You said you were spreading God’s word and when interviewed you [...]
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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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GENDER apartheid is set to be introduced next year on the Jerusalem light railway in deference to the city’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish population. CityPass CEO Yair Naveh said that he supports segregated cars on the train, unveiled today for the press and city and government officials. The train, built by CityPass, is not yet operational, but [...]
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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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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 