Reading Time: 3 minutes The BBC reports that a Texas school expelled a black student after she refused to stand for the flag during the idiotic and offensive ceremony imposed on state-funded schools in the US, the “Pledge of Allegiance.” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton intervened on Tuesday to defend the Houston-area school district in its lawsuit with the […]
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Australia: comedy duo skewers Prime Minister’s Christianity
Reading Time: < 1 minute Ever since Scott Morrison, inset, seized power last month, the godless masses in Australia – one of the least religious countries on the planet – have been asking themselves how they came to be saddled with a Prime Minister who’s a right-wing evangelical numpty. Oh wait … numpties was the word used by Morrison to […]
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Prophet: Trump will be toppled by the forces of witchcraft
Reading Time: 2 minutes Witchcraft is taking over America, and President Donald Trump is unlikely to survive the onslaught. That’s the prediction of dotty prophet Rev John A Kilpatrick, above, of the Church of His Presence in Daphne, Alabama. According to this report, he told a congregation on Sunday that witchcraft was taking over the US: And I want […]
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Argentina: Catholics urged to quit church after abortion vote
Reading Time: 2 minutes Last week, despite massive demonstrations in support abortion in Argentina, the country’s Senate voted against a Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy (IVE) Bill. It’s now being reported that those in favour of legal, safe and free abortion are being urged to quit the Catholic Church, which vigorously campaigned against the Bill, and that thousands have already […]
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Burqas: Boris Johnson reported to police for 'hate crime'
Reading Time: 2 minutes ITV journalist Daniel Hewitt reported in a tweet today that former Tory Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has been reported to police over his remarks comparing burqa wearers to ‘letter boxes’ and ‘bank robbers’ because such language would provoke the ‘spread of hate crime’. Running with the tweet, The Mirror reported that a member of the […]
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Christian bigot will continue to serve as a town councillor
Reading Time: 2 minutes Last month the Bible-thumping Mayor of Ferryhill in County Durham – Richard Smith – was forced to resign over anti-gay and anti-Muslim social media posts. But, to the delight of the Christian Legal Centre (CLC), he is being allowed to retain his post as a town councillor. Smith, a pastor, was propelled into the spotlight […]
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Christian politician resigns after baring his backside on TV
Reading Time: 2 minutes Georgia state representative and devout pro-life Christian Jason Spencer is out of a job after he bared his butt and repeatedly screamed the N-word in episode of Sacha Baron Cohen’s TV show Who Is America? The idiot was pranked into dropping his trousers after Cohen convinced him that touching an ISIS terrorist with his bare […]
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Hate group given a prominent role in Trump's administration
Reading Time: 4 minutes A listed American anti-LGBT hate group – Alliance Defending Freedom – has been linked to the Trump administration’s new religious freedom task force, which activists fear will be used to undermine equal rights protections. Pink News reports that Trump’s deranged, bat-eared Attorney General Jeff Sessions, above, announced the formation of a “religious freedom task force” […]
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In Alabama, a vote for Sandra Little Brown is a vote for Jesus
Reading Time: 2 minutes If Jefferson County Commissioner Sandra Little Brown is re-elected today, her victory will have been delivered by Jesus. Brown, according to this report, is claiming her re-election campaign has the blessing of Jesus “and his followers,” according to a piece of campaign literature that was distributed in District 2 ahead of today’s Democratic run-off with […]
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'Strip Mother Teresa of Indian honour,' says BJP politician
Reading Time: 2 minutes Subramanian Swamy, above, a senior Bharatiya Janata Party MP who has attacked Mother Teresa for her efforts to ‘Christianise’ India, is now calling for her to be stripped of India‘s highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna (Jewel of India). According to this report, his call last week came after Indian authorities busted a baby-trafficking racket […]