Category: Homophobia
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U.K. hospital chaplain cosied up to an Afghan Taliban extremist. National Secular Society voices its concern.
AFTER photographs emerged of a meeting between Muslim chaplain Suliman Gani, above, and Afghanistan’s Taliban Minister of Foreign Affairs Amir Khan Muttaqi, inset above, the NSS raised questions over Gani’s suitability to remain in the employ of the National Health Service. In a letter to St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust the NSS—Britain’s leading…
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Police remove protesters from a Lisbon church that hosted an LGBT+ Mass during World Youth Day
GIVEN the rampant misogyny, homophobia and emotional and physical abuse that characterises the Roman Catholic Church it beggars belief that people—especially members of LGBT+ communities—would want to be associated in any way with this toxic, multinational corporation. But the sad truth is that suckers for punishment exist in all walks of life, none more so…
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Pure provocation: Anti-LGBT+ café opens in Denver’s VERY gay arts district. Protesters vow to close it.
THOSE protesting the recent appearance of Drip Café in the heart of a gay area are claiming that its opening was a deliberate act of “political” provocation,” and are holding weekly protests in a bid to have it closed. The Christian Post reports that owner Jamie Sanchez believes the Denver Communists and LGBT+ protesters were…
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Belfast street preacher who said gays are ‘out to rape our children and country’ complains of being ‘vilified’
HATE preacher Ryan Williamson, who received a “cease and desist” notice from Northern Ireland authorities last year for his persistent and noisy rants in the town of Larne, is now reportedly under investigation after targeting a Pride event in Belfast at the weekend. Williamson was videoed saying: Homosexuals have become so brazen that they wanted…
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Iranian chastity enforcer Reza Tsaghati is out of a job following his alleged appearance in a gay sex tape
TSAGHATI, above, was the hardline Director of Islamic guidance and culture in the northern Gilan province of Iran until a video appearing to show him having sex with a “much younger man” went viral last week. The Publica reports that that Tsaghati, “a staunch advocate” for mandatory hijab-wearing by Irianian women, has been dismissed from…
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The gulf between Hungary’s ‘illiberal’ Christian democracy and the ‘anti-family’ European Union widens
UNDER the leadership of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, above, a pro-Russian member of the Calvinist Hungarian Reformed Church, the country has increasingly found itself at loggerheads with the values of the E.U. The latest manifestation of Orbán’s hostility to the E.U. took place in Transylvania, Romania, last week where he accused the the E.U. of…
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‘Bible-believing’ councillor ‘cancelled’ by UK’s Conservative Party & others for labeling Pride event ‘sinful’
AFTER learning via social media that nudity had been observed during a Pride event, King Lawal, above, tweeted his displeasure over “sinful” and “illegal” activity. As a consequence the 31-year-old got himself suspended earlier this month from his role of Conservative party councillor in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, and is now making suing noises, claiming his “life…
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Finland’s ‘Bible trial’ enters a new phase as prosecutors appeal the acquittal of a Lutheran homophobe
FINNISH authorities stand accused of waging war on Christianity by Christian lawmaker Dr. Päivi Räsänen, above, who has been ordered to attend an appeal court hearing later this year. Premier Christian News reported that Räsänen’s run-in with Finnish anti-hate speech laws began in 2019 when she took to Twitter to express concern that her church…
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Pastor’s recent call for the execution of parents of trans people is an extension of religious moral panics
WHEN I learned this week that Edinburgh had acquired a Museum of Magic, Fortune-telling and Witchcraft, created to cast light light on a grisly period in Scottish history when nearly 4,000 people were accused and 2,500 executed for witchcraft, I immediately made a connection between past religious moral panics and recent reports centred on hysterical…
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British Virgin Islanders told to ‘obey God’ when voting in a referendum on same-sex marriage
THE advice came earlier this year from Vice President of the BVI Christian Council, Rosemarie Flax, inset above, as the BVI—a British Overseas Territory—prepares to hold a vote to decide whether or not to legalise same-sex marriage. She said: It is always better to obey God over man. The Christian Council supports whoever God chooses…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 