Christianity

IN November, on the Freethinker site, I carried a piece about a friend – Cliff  James, above – who was just about to publish a book in which he wrote …
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THE Trump administration, to the surprise of many and the fury of evangelical zealots, recently made it clear that it wants homosexual sex acts decriminalised worldwide. But the President of …
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AT the weekend a lunch gathering in London gave LGBT Humanists the opportunity to celebrate and reflect upon the work done by what Andrew Copson, Chief Executive of Humanists UK, …
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AHMED el-Tayeb, a leading Sunni Muslim leader who thinks homosexuality is a disease and that gay people and apostates should be executed, met up with Pope Francis in mid-November – …
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AN ANNOUNCEMENT by US fast-food chain Chick-Fil-A that it is to stop funding the Salvation Army and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes has stunned and outraged bigots who fervently supported …
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FOLLOWING the weekend canonisation of English cardinal John Henry Newman Jesuit Fr James Martin, above, reiterated his belief that Newman may have been gay.

This has sent a frisson of …
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IN June of this year, Andrea Minichiello Williams, above, Chief Executive of Christian Concern, gleefully seized upon an incident in which two homophobic ten-year-olds were suspended from classes for five …
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THE First Assembly of God Church in Blackwell, Oklahoma, is currently under police investigation after a young man claimed to have been subjected to a vicious ‘pray-away-the-gay’ session in which …
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LABOUR  councillor Rohit Dasgupta, above, has lashed out at a fundamentalist Christian campaign that used fake news to attack new relationship education lessons.

The RSE Schoolgate Campaign alleged in a …
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JOSHUA Harris, the influential ‘purity’ advocate who recently shocked his followers by separating from his wife, kissing Christianity goodbye and apologising for his homophobia, has sent further ripples of horror …
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