Reading Time: 5 minutes Due to a ruling by the Constitutional Court on February 21, 2022, abortion in Colombia became legal on-demand and without restrictions up to the 24th week of pregnancy. The move was condemned by the country’s bishops, and Archbishop Luis José Rueda Aparicio of Bogotá, President of the Colombian Bishops’ Conference, said that life: Is a […]
Barry Duke
Veteran journalist and free speech activist Barry Duke was, for 24 years, editor of The Freethinker magazine, the second oldest continually active freethought publication in the world, established by G.W. Foote in 1881. He also edits a website for The Pink Triangle Trust https://thepinktriangletrust.com/) for a UK-based LGBT charity of the same name. He lives in Spain with his husband Marcus. The couple have been together for 25 years. In 2017, the year he was married, he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the London-based National Secular Society.
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Scientology’s Freewinds: Cruise ship or floating prison?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Back in 2011, ABC News reported that Australian resident Valeska Paris had been “imprisoned” onboard a cruise ship called the Freewinds for 12 years to which she had been sent, at the age of 18, by Scientology leader “captain” David Miscavige. The move was aimed at preventing her mother from taking her away from what […]
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‘Satan controls the Church’: Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Greene maligns the RCC
Reading Time: 4 minutes A devil of a row has erupted between Catholic League president Bill Donohue and Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene over a recent interview in which she referred to bishops lending aid to immigrants as an example of “Satan controlling the Church.” Donohue has demanded that Greene be sanctioned by House leadership for lashing out […]
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Preacher Sean Feucht announces a second anti-Disney Florida rally
Reading Time: 3 minutes Although Sean Feucht claims he is dead against children being indoctrinated, he doesn’t seem to have a problem using his daughter to fuel his hatred of LGBTQ+ people. Now he is set to return to “Don’t Say Gay” Florida to target Disney at a “Hold The Line For Our Kids” rally on May 16. In […]
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Florida taxpayers may be left paying for DeSantis’ war on Disney
Reading Time: 3 minutes In 2013, Russia introduced a law prohibiting “gay propaganda,” much to the disgust of the civilized world. Then, this year, Florida did much the same with DeSantis signing a “Don’t Say Gay” bill into law last month. This means, according to NPR, that public school teachers in Florida are now banned from holding classroom instruction […]
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Me and my gull-friend: A story of love, hate, and chips
Reading Time: 4 minutes The man who bore down at me as I was walking towards my local park to have a relaxed lunch and read a book had fire in his eyes as stormed towards me. “You and I,” he bellowed, “need to have word about that bloody gull I’ve seen you feeding on numerous occasions.” He ranted […]
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In defense of the May/December relationship
Reading Time: 4 minutes I met my future husband in 1996, two years after losing my partner Brian to cancer. A former British army recruit, Brian was 47, I was a couple of years older. We’d been together for two decades. Then I met Marcus. Frankly, I thought nothing would develop out of our chance encounter on a tube […]
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Rep. Jamie Raskin: Some members of House act more like ‘a religious cult’
Reading Time: 2 minutes During a discussion at an April 21 event at Georgetown University in Washington DC titled “Truth and Trauma: The Trials of American Democracy and Personal Tragedy,” Rep. Jamie Raskin, a humanist and a member of the Congressional Freethought Caucus, claimed that some Republican House members are “acting much more like members of a religious cult.” […]
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Ilhan Omar assailed for asking sensible question about mid-air worship song
Reading Time: 3 minutes When Muslim U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar learned that a captive audience on an easyJet plane flying from Poland to America were forced to endure a bunch of Christians singing “How Great Is Our God,” she said on Twitter, “I think my family and I should have a prayer session next time I am on a […]
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Hi, my name is Barry, and I’m an online shopping addict now well on the road to recovery
Reading Time: 4 minutes Folk who know me well will tell you that I’m a walking repository for all manner of gadgets, ranging from portable power banks to self-defense flashlights and electronic cigarette lighters with USB charging ports. My bulging leather satchel also has a multi-purpose Swiss Army knife, a telescopic magnet for fishing keys out of storm-water drains […]