AIDS denial plays a corrosive role in the health policies of many countries, but nowhere has the damage been as extreme or as enduring as in South Africa.… Read the rest

Very nasty stuff… Read the rest

The Inca were imperialists too, and the treatment of such peasant children may have served to instil fear and facilitate social control over remote mountain areas.… Read the rest

A ministerial working group in the Home Office charged with injecting religious ideas ‘across Whitehall’. … Read the rest

Does a religion have the right to impose its religious taboos onto the public domain?… Read the rest

Extracts from Humanist Philosophers’ Group pamphlet.… Read the rest

Faisal Joseph, a lawyer from the Canadian Islamic Congress who is representing the four students, argued that journalists can’t write just anything.… Read the rest

Another demonstration that atheism is simply not permissible.… Read the rest

Feminism created a new normal. … Read the rest

The scientific evidence is overwhelming and has been published in peer-reviewed medical journals, the way science is supposed to be done. … Read the rest

Human rights group also wants web log writers to highlight the plight of fellow bloggers jailed for what they wrote in their online journals.… Read the rest

Despite evidence that contradicts the story of a prelapsarian gynecocracy, and a glaring lack of evidence to support it, many people continue to subscribe to it. … Read the rest

A world cured of its worst remediable deprivations and horrors is worth aiming for.… Read the rest

‘We are moving against the tide in order to establish family and gender roles as described in God’s word for the home and the family,’ seminary president said.… Read the rest

A shipowner was about to send to sea an emigrant-ship.… Read the rest

Durban I degenerated into open expressions of intolerance and anti-Semitism that undermined the very goals the conference sought to achieve.… Read the rest

He has to reduce science to just another faith in order to salvage the “reasonableness” of religious belief.… Read the rest

Guy kills wife, gets 3 underage girls in ‘compensation.’… Read the rest

We Have No Orders To Save You.… Read the rest

She was regularly beaten, left to sleep in her own urine, had her teeth knocked out, was hospitalised after a beating when she tried to break out of the orphanage.… Read the rest