Tag: Scotland
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Priest seen sexually molesting a man on a train said he was ‘affirming’ the victim
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with a donation. FATHER Daniel Doherty, above, a priest at St Francis Xavier’s Church in Falkirk, Scotland, has been sentenced to 16 months in jail and his name has been added to the sex offenders register for 10 years. Doherty, 61, first appeared…
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Supermarket chain urged to ditch Sunday opening plan on the Scottish Isle of Lewis
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with a donation. MORE than 1,700 people have signed a “keep the Sabbath sacred” petition, launched by the Rev Alasdair J Macleod, above, of the Free Church (Continuing), who wants to stop Tesco from extending its trading days. Macleod’s petition says: By signing…
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‘Firebrand’ Muslim cleric’s plan to buy a Scottish island for his followers deemed ‘unsuitable’ for the local community
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. VARIOUS reports over the weekend revealed that Sheikh Yasser Al-Habib, 45, above, and his supporters have been in advanced talks to buy Torsa, off the west coast of Scotland. His scheme is to build a school, hospital and mosque. But…
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Foolish and out of touch church leaders warn that Scotland will become an ‘ethical wilderness’ if it legalises assisted suicide
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. LAST month Dignity in Dying pointed out that almost 78 percent of Scots confirmed in a survey that they would support a law proposed by Liberal Democrat MSP Liam McArthur, above, who has campaigned on the issue for many years.…
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Scottish Baptist church that promotes sexism should not enjoy charitable status says National Secular Society
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. THE NSS has lodged a complaint with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR), claiming a sermon delivered by Reverend Chris Demetriou, pictured above with his wife, is “misogynistic, discriminatory against women and perpetuates sexist tropes”. Demetriou heads Rosyth…
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Scotland plans on banning conversion therapy. UK Christian hate group threatens legal action.
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. MEET Simon Calvert, above. the silly twit who acts as Deputy Director of the fanatical Christian Institute (CI). He’s in the news because Scotland is contemplating a ban on dangerous and discredited “gay cure” interventions, used in the main by…
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Scottish council votes to strip religious reps, who allegedly ‘provide a moral compass,’ of voting rights
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. THE UK’s National Secular Society (NSS) today welcomed a decision by East Lothian Council to act on the findings of a public consultation that showed that 84 per cent of respondents believed religious representatives should not be allowed to vote…
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National Secular Society challenges Scotland’s religious representation education law of 1973
AN foolish and undemocratic law in Scotland requires councils to appoint unelected religious representatives to their education committees. Appointees are usually the only unelected members who receive voting privileges, and the NSS is currently running a campaign to remove automatic places on education committees for religious representatives. The Local Government (Scotland) Act of 1973 requires…
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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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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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