Report will scrutinise how some of the country’s most senior prelates handled child abuse allegations.… Read the rest

This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief.… Read the rest

Woman in short skirt is not at fault, therefore God is not at fault. Eh?… Read the rest

Head of NIH is a political position; the appointment of a loudly evangelical Christian sends a political message. … Read the rest

It is not a matter of private belief, but public advocacy. The director of NIH is a public face of science… Read the rest

Why not after all? Obama is an elected head of state, and the pope is…a catholic.… Read the rest

You can’t believe he’s going to say it – but he does.… Read the rest

‘Everything in sharia law is discriminatory against women.’… Read the rest

The mass beheadings follow many individual executions, amputations and stonings.… Read the rest

The brother shot them in front of their father, who quickly forgave the son for defending the family’s honour.… Read the rest

If it causes outrage to enough people, it’s blasphemy. … Read the rest

Conflict is at the heart of intellectual inquiry. When one side must pussyfoot around, inquiry is stymied.… Read the rest

Science journalist writes a careful article, editor guts and re-writes it and introduces mistakes.… Read the rest

To criticize ‘homosexual behavior.’ Also female behavior, black behavior, foreigner behavior?… Read the rest

A society where rape is widespread and victims are more likely to receive punishment than perpetrators.… Read the rest

An Afghan law which legalised rape has a new clause letting husbands starve their wives if they refuse to have sex.… Read the rest

A sublimely human activity and a central part of every culture that aspires to be more than a collection of subsistence breeders.… Read the rest