Month: February 2023
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God is hate. Elderly woman threatened with hell for painting steps of a church in rainbow colours.
PITT Street Uniting Church in Syney, Australia, has been at the forefront of the fight for LGBT+ equality since the 1980s. So it certainly would have had no quarrel with a woman—part of a small group—who decided to paint its stairs in rainbow colours to coincide with World Pride currently being held in the city.…
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Attendance at religious classes in Victoria slumps by a stupendous 99 percent
A WHILE back the state did a very smart thing. It scrapped religious education from schol classes. Now the non-mandatory classes, called Special Religious Instruction (SRI)— are held during lunchtime and before and after school. The move, according The Age, has seen attendances at these classes plummet by 99 percent in a decade. This is…
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Yorkshire police drawn into a row over ‘disrespect’ for a Quran at a Wakefield school
POLICE in the UK, like so many other services under the control of an utterly in competent Conservative government, are overworked and under-resourced, so my question today is why the hell did coppers get themselves involved in an incident involving “disrsepect” of a copy of a Quran at Wakefield’s Kettlethorpe High School? According to the…
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Angry Glasgow medic confronts supporters of a Texas-based anti-abortion group outside a hospital
40 Days for Life, which cruelly harasses women outside abortion facilities in the US and beyond, has a very far reach. Supporters of this aggressive outfit, led by Rose Docherty, above, showed up outside a maternity ward at Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital this week to hold a vigil. There they were confronted by Dr…
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Christian lawmaker tables a bill to protect religious hatemongers from being branded bigots
FLORIDA’S Repubican State Representative Alex Andrade, above, a buddy of Florida’s unhinged Governor Ron (“Don’t Say Gay”) DeSantis, wants to make it easier for zealots to sue media outlets and individuals who brand them bigots. Acting on a suggestion from DeSantis—notorious for hate speech and actions aimed at members of LGBT+ communities—Andrade this week introduced…
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Two Republican imbeciles want ‘sexually explicit’ books excluded from classrooms. Does that include the Bible?
THE two members of Congress—serial liar George Santos (New York) and far-right secessionist Marjorie Taylor Greene (Georgia), above—have co-sponsored a bill designed to prohibit publishers from “furnishing sexually explicit material” to public schools or educational agencies. Bill HR 863 played right into the hands of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, which warned the two “Comstockians”:…
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Faith-based health care company scammed millions from Christians, says FBI
MISSOURI-based Medical Cost Sharing Ministry, headed by CE0 Craig Reynolds, inset, targeted Christians wanting an alternative to ObamaCare. Medical Cost Sharing Inc, according to the FBI, attempted to lower payouts, failed to negotiate prices down with healthcare providers and, in some cases, entirely avoided covering members’ medical costs by using “specious” excuses. Among those who…
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Christian fundamentalist Kate Forbes’ ambition to be the next leader of the Scottish National Party falters badly
FORBES’ campaign to replace Nicola Sturgeon, who announced she was standing down as SNP leader, pretty much hit the rocks after her primitive views on same-sex marriage and having children out of wedlock were widely exposed this week. Forbes, currently Scotland’s Finance Minister, is a member of the evangelical Free Church of Scotland, known as…
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The Satanic Temple’s abortion clinic is named after Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito. Fox news throws a fit.
IN an op-ed published today, Fox News excoriates The Satanic Temple for naming its on-line reproductive rights clinic after Sam Alito, above, who wrote the majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, finding no right to abortion in the Constitution. Recognised by the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as a religion in 2019,…
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Being gay is a ‘choice’ says Christian mother who is suing a London school
Recent comments Central London County Court is expected to rule soon on a case brought against Heavers Farm Primary School in Croydon. Izzy Montague, above, alleges that her son, aged four, was “forced” into taking part in an LGBT+ event in 2018 and claims that being gay is a “choice.” The bigot’s case, which began…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 