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Oh No! Now Florida contemplates issuing a religious licence plate

Thursday, April 24, 2008

HOT on the heels of the Indiania “In God We Trust” licence plate controversy comes the news today that the Florida legislature is to consider a speciality plate with a design that includes a Christian cross, a stained-glass window and the words “I Believe”.
According to this Google report, it’s the brainchild of Craig Dobson from [...]

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Orthodox Jew strips off in protest over Jewish food ruling

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

HERE’S a sight one does not often seen in public in Israel – or anywhere else for that matter: an Orthodox Jewish man wearing nothing but a sock over his genitals.
Ah, but the supermarket, in which he almost bared all, was not a public place, argued the unnamed 27-year-old yeshiva student.
He entered the [...]

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Rubbish Darth Vader faces an encounter with jail

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

PROBABLY the worst-turned out Darth Vader in the entire galaxy – he had a black binbag for a cape and a metal crutch for a light sabre – found himself before a magistrate today charged with assaulting two Jedis.
According to the BBC, Arwel Wynne Hughes, 27, from Holyhead, Anglesey, admitted assaulting Barney Jones and cousin [...]

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‘Holy’ hooligans come to blows

Monday, April 21, 2008

CHRISTIANITY’S holiest shrine – the Church of the Holy Sepulchre – was the scene yesterday (Palm Sunday) – of an unseemly brawl when dozens of Greek and Armenian orthodox priests and worshippers exchanged blows.
When police tried to break up the fight, they were pummelled with palm fronds.
All hell broke loose when Armenian clergy forcibly ejected [...]

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Goddamn it! You just gotta love them lovin’ Christians

Sunday, April 20, 2008

JUNE Gordon, 54, from Knoxville, Tennessee (“God’s Little Pasture”) is “filled with the Holy Spirit!!!”.
And she oozes Christian love from every pore – except when it comes to the American Civil Liberties Union.
Then she turns into a swivel-eyed, slavering wingnut:
The ACLJEW ain’t nothing but a pack of New Yorky Hebes hellbent on destroying American values! [...]

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British mystics fear they may have to prove their powers in court

Saturday, April 19, 2008

CAROLE McEntee-Taylor is not happy with a new Government proposal to include the services of Britain’s clairvoyants, mediums and mystics under consumer protection rules.
Said McEntee-Taylor, 50:

It’s a belief system. By putting us under consumer protection regulations, we have to prove what we believe. Other religions don’t have to do that.
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