DAN Barker, co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, has joined with Michael Newdow – who fought to have the words “under God” removed from the Pledge of Allegiance – in a federal lawsuit to prevent prayers being uttered at Barack Obama’s official inauguration on January 20.
Obama ran headlong into controversy when he recently announced [...]
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A MEMBER of the British Humanist Association, Rupert Young, is challenging “the authority and exclusivity of the Church of England” by means of a petition calling on Westminster Abbey to mark the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth.
Says Young:
Darwin was undoubtedly one of this country’s greatest scientists and one of the world’s most significant thinkers, [...]
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CHRISTIAN nutjob Rev Fred Nile MP has stirred up a hornet’s nest by demanding that topless bathing be banned in NSW to protect Sydney’s Muslim and Asian communities.
Reverend Nile is National President of the Christian Democratic Party – a conservative party which appeals to Christians on moral and social issues. Best known for his homophobia, [...]
THIS will come as no surprise to Freethinker readers, but what is astonishing is that the observation was made by Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, the head of the Muslim Parliament of Great Britain.
Siddiqui was commenting in The Times on the tragic case of model Sahar Daftary, 23, who fell 150ft from the twelfth storey of a block [...]
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WHEN we reported recently on pastor Ted Haggard’s failure to bag the holy grail of heterosexuality, we commented:
People who are naturally homosexual cannot change their sexual orientation, any more than a white person can turn black. Evangelicals should take this fact on board, and instead of concentrating so much of their efforts on ‘curing’ gays, [...]
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A spiritual healer in Pakistan and his “accomplice” narrowly avoided being burned alive by a mob of 3,000 who believed he deliberately set fire to “holy” Koranic verses.
The incident took place at Chandni Chowk, Orangi Town within the jurisdiction of Pakistan Bazaar Police Station earlier this week.
Abdul Jabbar, 45, who was arrested after his ordeal, [...]
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