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More evidence of hatred from the ‘Religion of Peace’

Monday, September 1, 2008

DESPITE all the promises that the books condoning terrorism would be removed [from British mosques], as would the preachers advocating the rigid enforcement of the narrowest interpretration of sharia law and the overthrow of our liberal democracy – violent, intolerant prejudice continues to be preached, this time by women, in centres of ‘moderate Islam’, such [...]

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Krakow’s ‘Pink Purse’ campaign sends Polish Catholics ballistic

Sunday, August 31, 2008

A BIT late, but funny nevertheless ….
Catholics in Poland are aghast that the city wants gays, rather than drunken straight stag-nighters to visit Krakow, which has lost patience with boozy Brits.
According to the Guardian, tourist authorities in the medieval city have outraged Catholic opinion by announcing plans to target the pink purse instead, with a [...]

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Church up a gum tree over apology to gay teacher

Saturday, August 30, 2008

THE Dutch Reformed Church, found guilty of discriminating against a music teacher by sacking him when they discovered he was gay, is in a quandary over the apology it has been ordered to make.
Dominee Dirkie van der Spuy, head of the Moreleta Park congregation in Pretoria, was disappointed by the High Court judgment in favour [...]

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Whoo-hoo! Dutch Reformed Church must pay damages to gay musician

Friday, August 29, 2008

A PRETORIA High Court judge has ordered the Dutch Reformed Church at Moreleta Park to unconditionally apologise to a music teacher it fired because he is in a gay relationship.
According to this report today, South African Judge Dion Basson found that the congregation had unfairly discriminated against Johan Strydom when they fired him from their [...]

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Evils of religion spelled out in landmark gay discrimination case

Friday, August 22, 2008

RELIGIOUS intolerance has generated more wars, misery and suffering than any other type of disorientation or bias. In the name of this or that deity, for the glory of a divine cause or in order to settle abstruse theological disputes, human blood has been shed for thousands of years.
Those were the astonishing concluding remarks of [...]

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Farewell, Leo Abse, gay rights champion and flamboyant troublemaker

Thursday, August 21, 2008

THE man who changed the world for the British gay community through his unstinting efforts to decriminalise homosexuality in the 1960s, died this week aged 91.
But Leo Abse, Labour MP for Pontypool from 1958 until his retirement at the age of 70 29 years later, was much more than just a gay rights champion. He [...]

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