The UK will outlaw conversion therapy for gays, but not trans people
Reading Time: 3 minutes When the government refers to “talking therapies” it is, in effect, referring to prayer. So its exclusion of trans people from a conversion therapy ban it announced last week can only be interpreted as capitulation to pressure from religious groups who have been working flat-out to retain all “pray-away-the-gay” interventions. In announcing the ban in response to a petition—”Ensure Trans people are fully protected under any conversion therapy ban” signed…
Life lessons from the death of a bumblebee
Reading Time: 5 minutes In the grand scheme of things the death of a single bumblebee is of little consequence. Or…
Bible museum received $2.4 million from ‘Bill’ Hwang, an evangelist who committed wire fraud
Reading Time: 2 minutes In the same year the museum opened its doors, faith-based Hobby Lobby paid a $3 million fine…
Graphic novel breathes new life into ‘filthy little atheist’ Thomas Paine
Reading Time: 4 minutes Revolutionary political campaigner Thomas Paine (1774–1809) wrote in The Age of Reason (1792): “Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous…
Former pastor on trial for plotting to exterminate Black South Africans
Reading Time: 5 minutes Knoesen, head of the National Christian Resistance Movement (NCRM)—also known as The Crusaders—is accused of planning to…
Police chief who brought down God’s wrath on a UK city is dead
Reading Time: 4 minutes Years ago, I was taking a perfectly respectable leak in a public toilet when I suddenly became…
Two lawyers call on Americans to pray for more godly judges
Reading Time: 3 minutes Christian Legal Society CEO David Nammo and Alliance Defending Freedom senior counsel Gregory S. Baylor have suggested…
If Roe v. Wade falls, it could cause devastating damage in Latin America
Reading Time: 5 minutes Due to a ruling by the Constitutional Court on February 21, 2022, abortion in Colombia became legal…
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…
‘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.…
