Category: Homophobia
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Why is worship in schools still mandatory when religious belief among the young in the UK is plummeting?
Images via Pexels LUDICROUS as it may seem, each pupil attending a community, foundation or voluntary school in England is required to take part in an act of collective worship each school day. This, despite the fact that more than 50 percent of young people—the baby boomers, the millennials and generation Z—are all turning away…
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Christian cake creator loses Colorado Court of Appeals case
Image via YouTube JACK PHILLIPS, above, gained international notoriety more than a decade ago when he refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple. What followed was a series of court hearings that went all the way up to the US Supreme court where the devout owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in suburban Denver…
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UK human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell says Christianity is not about discrimination. He’s profoundly wrong.
Image via YouTube I LIKE Peter Tatchell … a lot! He and I have met up on a number of occasions at various LGBT+ rights rallies in London over half-a-century, and I was dead chuffed when he came to congratulate me on winning a lifetime achievement award in 2017 at a ceremony organised by the…
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Homophic Republican Congressman, who won support from NY right-wing Jews by pretending to be Jewish, is outed as a drag queen
George Santos. Image via Wikipedia CC LAST December New Yorker Santos entered the US Congress with Jewish support after telling a whole bunch of lies. These including a claim that he was a Jew, and a descendant of Holocaust survivors. At the time, Jacques Berlinerblau, writing for MSNBC, said that right-wing Jews—”a minority in the Jewish…
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Scotland’s Catholic bishops demand rejection of an ‘Ending Conversion Practices’ report
Bishop John Keenan, Bishop of Paisley. Image via YouTube. LAST October the Scottish government—presently involved in a bitter anti-democratic row with the UK parliament over its Gender Recognition Reform Bill—vowed to introduce “comprehensive” legislation to ban conversion therapies. Having apparently stewed (and prayed) over the issue for months, Scotland’s Catholic bishops finally issued a statement…
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Spray away the gay: Mexican woman launches a holy water attack on loving couple
Screen shots and main image via Pixabay (Jeff Jacobs.) LEONARDO Hernández, inset, and his partner Thomas were doing just what millions of couples do when they are love. They were relaxing with their arms around each other when a mad, unidentified woman appeared out of nowhere. Brandishing a plastic bottle reportedly containing holy water, she…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 