Because that pope memo was “disrespectful of some key tenets of the Catholic faith.”
Author: Ophelia Benson
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Hitchens v the pope
Bloggers respond to the idea of busting the pope.
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The “pedophile’s paradise”
Alaska Natives accuse the Catholic church of using their remote villages as “dumping grounds” for child-molesting priests.
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Oklahoma abortion law: no exceptions
Mandatory sonogram, which could mean rape with a wand, plus mandatory lecture.
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Three girls is three too many
Three sisters have suffered serious facial burns after two unidentified men on a motorbike threw acid at them in Pakistan’s Balochistan province. The sisters, aged between 14 and 20 years old, were attacked as they walked from Kalat city to Pandarani village…The police named the girls as Fatima Bibi, 20, Saima Bibi, 16 and Sakina Bibi, 14…Two weeks ago, an unknown group – the Baloch Ghairatmand Group (the Honourable Baloch Group) – claimed responsibility for a similar attack on two women in a market in Dalbandin city. The group had warned women to wear the hijab, the traditional Muslim headscarf, and not to visit markets unaccompanied by men from their families.
So in other words these three girls had acid thrown in their faces because they existed, because they were girls, because they went outside, because they went somewhere, because they were visible, because they walked and talked and breathed, because there were three of them. They had acid thrown in their faces because nothing. They had acid thrown in their faces because two thugs felt like throwing acid on some women, and the Bibi sisters were there. “Honourable” indeed – give me a fucking break.
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Pakistan: acid attack on three sisters
The sisters, aged between 14 and 20 years old, were attacked as they walked from Kalat city to Pandarani village.
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PZ on Pigliucci and Romano and “tone”
Tone matters, because too many have been insufficiently fierce in their criticism of pious excuses for sloppy thinking.
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Street “preacher” arrested for saying homosexuality is sin
Christian campaigners have expressed alarm that the Public Order Act is being used to curb religious free speech.
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Vatican politics
“The Holy See cannot get to the bottom of this matter. It would have to criticize itself as an authority.”
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Tories reach out to Christian fundamentalists
Among the Tory faithful, there is a growing feeling that Christian values are under attack.
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UN appoints Iran to women’s rights commission
Canada expresses doubts about Iran’s expertise in women’s rights.
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Why bother with ethics, we have religion
Giving our kids the option of thinking about ethics instead of picking up litter is a very slippery slope.
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Morales explains about diet and butchness
Europeans eat chickens full of female hormones, so the men go all queer-like.
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Nicholas Kristof on the two Catholic churches
The Vatican is appalling, but there are some generous and brave nuns and priests.
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Rising Tory star believes in “demonic activity”
Philippa Stroud founded a church that tried to “cure” homosexuals by driving out their “demons” through prayer.
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Oh a little bit of religious prejudice is not so bad
“Religious conviction should not be treated as simply opinion or the inconvenient relic of a superstitious age.”
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Grayling: why no Asbo for the pope?
Ratzinger is the head of a powerful organization that is above the law; so is the CEO of Goldman Sachs.
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Jesus and Mo on Boobquake
What would Deepak Chopra do?
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Leo Igwe on Religion in Lusaka Times
Interesting comments.
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No religious hatred here!
“Islam will dominate the world – Osama is on his way” – how could that have anything to do with religious hatred?