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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, a UK-based LGBT charity. 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.

Charity founded by Islamic hate preacher has been shut down in the UK
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Islamic Research Foundation International (IRFI)— registered in the UK in 2007 with the aim of “advancing the faith and religious practices of Islam”—was shut down earlier this month after several run-ins with charity and broadcasting regulators. This move has been lauded by those who have tried for years to silence the hate speech emanating from the charity’s Peace TV, which, among other things, broadcasts hateful sermons by Dr. Zakir…

Why were my ‘lace curtains’ removed and not my tonsils?
Reading Time: 6 minutes If my parents had gone along with a medical procedure that was common around the time I…

Globally, divorce rates are soaring, and so are custody battles over … pets
Reading Time: 4 minutes Pets in most countries are regarded as family members. But very few nations offer them legal protection…

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…

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…
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