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America warned by loony Christian ‘pro-lifer’ against copying UK buffer zones around abortion clinics

EARLIER this year safe access zones—also known as abortion clinic “buffer zones”—were signed into law in England and Wales, protecting clinics and ensuring that those accessing or providing essential abortion care will soon be able to do so free from anti-choice harassment and intimidation. Now the head of Christian Concern, the utterly deranged Andrea Minichiello…
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A b**ch of a row erupts around the Pope’s new head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

ARCHBISHOP Víctor Manuel Fernández, above right, the newly-appointed head of the CDF—once called the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition—has accused those unhappy with his new role of deliberately mistranslating the Spanish word “bruja” (witch) into the “b” word. Looking for reasons to attack the prelate, seen by traditionalists as holding “heterodox…
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Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders unrepentent over cross outside her mansion: ‘I’m a Christian’

RESPONDING to a challenge from Americans United For Separation of Church and State the Christian Republican, above, told the organisation to take a hike, and that the cross, created by her kids is staying just where it is. According to Faithwire the organisation rightly pointed out that this was a violation of church/state separation. It…
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Christian ‘gay cure’ outfit wins compensation from a UK bank that closed its account

NORTHERN Ireland-based Core Issue Trust, headed by “ex-gay” Mike Davidson, above, has been awarded £20,000 in compensation plus legal costs by Barclays Bank, which closed CIT’s account in a 2020. But the bank has not reinstated the account, Davidson told Tory toff and leading Brexiteer Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg in an interview broadcast by right-wing GB…
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Google caves into to bigoted Christian staff; distances itself from a Pride event in S.F.

CALIFORNIAN Joshua Grannell, the product of a “very Conservative Catholic school” where the name of Jesus was used “in many ways to instill fear in people,” later reacted by adopting the persona of “Peaches Christ”, pictured above. Grannel, described in a YouTube video as “one of San Francisco’s most legendary and prolific drag queens”, hit…
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Pakistan’s anti-terrorism laws are now to be used against those accused of blasphemy

BOWING to pressure from an extremist Islamic party— Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP)—the Pakistan government has agreed to prosecute blasphemy suspects under terrorism charges, in addition to the other sections of the country’s penal code. According to The Times of India Federal Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said the government has accepted “all legitimate” demands of the TLP,…
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Recent study shows that atheists are more politically influential than evangelicals

THE section of people in American society most likely to be highly engaged in political action are not evangelicals, as we’ve been led to believe. They are in fact atheists, according to political scientist Ryan Burge, above. Burge’s May article, based on findings by the Cooperative Election Study, was seized upon today (Thursday) by The…
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‘Favoured by God’ pastor shot his wife and and himself in a Mississippi hotel

IN the aftermath of the shooting last week, in which pastor Danny Prenell Jr and his wife Gabrielle (above) were injured, it’s been revealed that Prenell had a history of violence against his wife. Investigators say Prenell shot his wife twice at the Hampton Inn & Suites McComb before shooting himself once. The Christian Post…
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Welsh Mayor ousted after questioning religious genital mutilation in a 2008 blog

BACK in 2008, Andew Lye (inset) questioned why religious circumcision of children was necessary if God “made man in his own image”. In a short piece he wrote he said: For the record, I am uncut. I was born with it and cannot understand why any religion should require its removal (I can understand it…
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Preacher arrested at a Pride event says UK’s ‘biggest problem’ is homosexuality

THANKS to an utterly incompetent Conservative Party, Britain is suffering a cost-of-living crisis, a fast-disintegrating health service, rampant inflation and major post-Brexit damage to the economy. But its biggest problem is homosexuality among teenagers and young adults, claims street US preacher Ryan Schiavo, above. Schiavo, who made the claim in a YouTube video last year,…


“The curriculum had already drawn tensions among the county’s religious parents, with some worrying about appropriateness and arguing the material…