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Two Welsh Assembly members want ‘blasphemous’ poems stifled

WE learn today from the New Humanist that at least two members of the Welsh National Assembly are objecting to a planned reading by Patrick Jones of his controversial poetry in the Assembly next month.
Jones had been invited to give a reading after Waterstones in Cardiff suddenly cancelled a book-signing event by the poet earlier [...]

Standing up to Christian bullies

IT’S always heartening to hear news that bully-boy tactics, so beloved of religious organisations like our very own Christian Voice, don’t always work.
Take the case of Michigan-based Grosse Pointe South High School, which later this month will stage the controversial play, The Laramie Project – an account of the torture and beating death of gay [...]

Jesus’ penis complainer never saw the exhibit

Emily Mapfuwa, the Christian who was so offended by a statue of Jesus with a penis that she decided to take the art gallery to court, never actually visited the exhibition in which it was displayed, a local radio station has confirmed.
Mapfuwa’s lawyer, Michael Phillips of the Christian Legal Centre, was interviewed on BBC Radio [...]

Will the South Wales Echo now apologise to Muslims?

THE last time the South Wales Echo squared up to religion, religion – in the guise of Stephen “Birdshit” Green – shouted back BOO! The paper scuttled away in full panic mode, apologised to Christians for offending them, and promptly removed the offending item – a column by Dan O’Neill – from its website.
Well, [...]

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