If you thought that the only place this sort of thing happened was in undeveloped and backward theocracies – think again.
An 18-year-old lesbian student who wanted to take her girlfriend to her senior prom is asking a federal judge to force her Mississippi school district reinstate the dance it cancelled rather than let the couple attend.
Vatican chorister sacked for allegedly procuring male prostitutes for papal gentleman-in-waiting
How convoluted is it that the same organization known for sheltering and protecting pedophiles will give someone the papal pink slip for arranging a simple business transaction between consenting adults where no harm or hurt is involved.
Disabled Kids “God’s Punishment” for Earlier Abortions
A Virginia legislator announced last week that God punishes women who abort their firstborn by inflicting their later children with disabilities.
Guess that means if this guy is right I’m doomed to an eternity in the fiery pits.
According to the Anglican Church that’s the case but I’m not so sure. What Canada is is a society that has broken free from the authoritarian power structures the church has long enjoyed, and the Anglican Church (along with all the rest of them) would seem to have some decisions to make if they want an existence passed 2061 when the last Anglican walks the land.
Ten American Baptists were being held in the Haitian capital Sunday after trying take 33 children out of Haiti at a time of growing fears over possible child trafficking.
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“In this chaos the government is in right now, we were just trying to do the right thing,” the group’s spokeswoman, Laura Silsby, said at the judicial police headquarters in the capital, where the Americans were being held pending a hearing before a judge on Monday.
According to the Vatican Avatar “gets bogged down by a spiritualism linked to the worship of nature” and in the movie “Nature is no longer a creation to defend, but a divinity to worship”
— they must have been watching a different movie than I saw the other night.
I was not the least bit surprised to discover that it’s a result of a deal made with the devil to get rid of the French….. silly Haitians, don’t they know they can’t trust the devil?
– and because I think it would be fun to have a role in that sort of dysfunction I have, this very morning, submitted my resume directly to the Prime Minister offering to act in the capacity of spiritual advisor for Paganism to Her Majesty’s Government.
Government appoints “faith advisors” to bring religion further into policy-making
– with the outlawing of blasphemy.
An Irish atheist group have begun a campaign to have a controversial new blasphemy law repealed by publishing 25 quotations it claims are blasphemous on its website.
The new law that came into force on New Year’s Day, making blasphemy a crime that can result in a fine of up to 25,000 euros (36,000 dollars), is “both silly and dangerous”, according to Michael Nugent of Atheist Ireland.
Starting with that old favorite “Mamma don’t let your babies grow up to be politicians“
How did the Religion of Love become a lightning rod for vicious, jaw-droppingly stupid ideologues who think Ronald Reagan sitteth at the right hand of God?
Apart from the shotgun shells hiding her crotch, Sarah Palin makes a very fetching Virgin Mary. But doesn’t this kind of parody cause her religious followers any discomfort?
It used to be simple. Mostly I said Merry Christmas. If I knew what festival YOU were celebrating, I’d fill in the blanks to offer goodwill to you on YOUR holiday. If I was addressing a large group with diverse holidays, I’d say something generic. It seemed to work. But now…
The contents of the report, or the fact that the report was written — it’s not like they were overly cooperative is it?
Pope Benedict XVI said he shares the “outrage, betrayal and shame” felt by Irish Catholics over a government report that says the Catholic Church hid hundreds of child-abusing priests from the law, the Vatican said.
Benedict met senior Irish clergy at the Vatican Friday to discuss a possible response to a report released last week in Dublin, which found dozens of church leaders in Ireland’s most populous diocese kept secret the record of child abuse by more than 170 clerics since 1940.
Police and social workers charged with stopping child abuse didn’t start getting co-operation from the church until 1995.
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