Category: Same-sex marriage
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Greek Orthodox Church in Corfu ousts two lawmakers for voting in favour of same-sex marriage
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. FOLLOWING our report that the Greek Orthodox Church had conniptions over their country’s recent vote to legalise same-sex marriage comes news that the bishopric on the island of Corfu last week imposed a religious ban on two local lawmakers who…
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Greece has just approved same-sex marriage. Orthodox church is beside itself with fury.
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. IOANNIS FOTOPOULOS, above, is a hoary old priest in the Greek Orthodox Church, and like fellow clerics he is outraged that Greece had voted to legalise same-sex marriage in the face of strong religious opposition. Fotopoulos expressed his horror in…
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Church of England is now ‘formally broken’ because of same-sex blessings
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. BACK in 1917 a forgotten suffragette, Agnes Maude Royden, described the C of E as “the Conservative Party at Prayer,” and like the Tories today the Church is at all-out war with itself. At the root of the latest problem…
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Homophobic Texas bishop invited Pope to sack him. Francis obliges.
Please click on this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. “FIREBRAND” Bishop Joseph Strickland, above, who despises LGBT+ communities, and had endorsed a video that attacked the Pope as a “diabolically disoriented clown”, was removed from his post yesterday, just weeks after he invited the pontiff to sack him.…
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Evangelical Kentucky clerk who refused marriage licences to gay couples ordered to pay $100,000
ONE of two couples who ran foul of the deeply-held religious beliefs of Kim Davis, above—David Ermold and David Moore—have been awarded $100,000 in damages for the humiliation, mental anguish and emotional distress she caused them back in 2015. However, a second couple, James Yates and Will Smith, who were also denied a marriage licence…
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Times newspaper accused of being ‘antagonistic’ to Christians after it surveyed attitudes of C of E clerics
THE survey, which shows that a majority of priests are out of step with core Church or England doctrine, was slammed this week by hate group Christian Concern, headed by the dotty Andrea Minichiello Williams and Rev Dr Ian Paul, inset above, a member of the Anglican Archbishops’ Council. The Times reported that 53 percent…
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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…
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Petition to remove bishops from the House of Lords launched by UK writer, comedian and broadcaster Sandi Toksvig
The move comes as MPs consider bringing the Church of England into line with the law of the land with regard to same-sex marriage. IN her petition the popular British-Danish personality insists that “whatever goes on inside religious organisations, the Church should not be allowed to hold sway in the Houses of Parliament. “ It…
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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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