Yesterday, Judge Syed Mahmod Hossain ordered Dr Abedin’s parents to return her passport.… Read the rest
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Bangladesh: Dr Humayra Abedin is Free 
Dec 14th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The High Court in Dhaka ruled she had to be freed; she was handed over to the British High Commission.… Read the rest
RSPCA Grovels to ‘Hindu Community’
Dec 14th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Agreed to apologise for ‘upsetting the Hindu community’ by ending torture of a cow.… Read the rest
Blair Thinks Catholicism Makes No Difference
Dec 14th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘I don’t, to be honest, think it makes any difference to people at all, politically.’ Think again.… Read the rest
Report on ‘One Law for All’ Launch
Dec 14th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Such self-appointed, unregulated tribunals hold themselves up as courts with as much force as the law of the land.… Read the rest
Launch of ‘One Law for All’ Campaign
Dec 14th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Sharia law is discriminatory, unfair and unjust, particularly against women and children.’… Read the rest
Amish Refuse to Obey Laws
Dec 14th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Attorneys argue they have a constitutional right to ‘religious freedom,’ law or no law.… Read the rest
A rose by any other name
Dec 14th, 2008 4:13 am | By Ophelia BensonTony Blair seems to think that Catholicism has no actual content – that it’s just a name or a label attached to a set of harmless weekend habits.
… Read the restMr Blair left little doubt that it was fear of the public and media reaction that led him to delay his conversion until after he quit as PM – even though he had been attending mass for 25 years and was bringing his children up as Catholics…”There was no disrespect… for the Anglican church, it’s just that my family all go to mass, my kids are brought up as Catholic and I have been going to mass for 25 years, so to come into full communion seemed to me my natural home.
Stop that at once, amen
Dec 13th, 2008 2:57 pm | By Ophelia BensonThe Vatican has told us all what’s what again.
The Vatican says these techniques violate the principles that every human life — even an embryo — is sacred, and that babies should be conceived only through intercourse by a married couple.
Why? Because…intercourse by a married couple is sacred, thus matching the sacredness of the embryo? What if the married couple in question has used contraception in the past? Is their intercourse still sacred? Is the Vatican sure it wouldn’t prefer an innocent test tube that has never used any form of artificial contraception whatsoever? Has the Vatican thought this through?
… Read the restThe Vatican’s intended audience is not only individual Roman Catholics, but also non-Catholic doctors, scientists, medical researchers and legislators
Mukoko Changed People’s Lives
Dec 13th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Article 19 says Mukoko (and everyone) has the right to ‘receive and impart information and ideas through any media.’… Read the rest
Silenced: the Sharpest Voice Against Mugabe
Dec 13th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Mukoko has collected evidence of tens of thousands of abuses in the past decade.… Read the rest
Vatican’s Position is Scientifically Insupportable
Dec 13th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The Center for Inquiry deplores the Vatican’s pronouncement.… Read the rest
Scientific American on Vatican ‘Instructions’
Dec 13th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The Vatican is committed to conception that involves marital sex. Why?… Read the rest
Vatican Inadvertently Endorses Abortion
Dec 13th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Vatican says human life ‘can never be reduced merely to a group of cells.’ Just so.… Read the rest
Vatican Issues ‘Instruction’ on Bioethics
Dec 13th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Vatican’s most ‘authoritative’ document in 20 years, reinforcing the church’s mindless opposition to everything.… Read the rest
Want to Feel Better? Try Tuning Fork Therapy
Dec 12th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Or perhaps a gemstone elixir, or some nice Fibonacci set, or a mix of chakra forks and angel forks.… Read the rest
Ben Goldacre Says Why He is so Repetitive
Dec 12th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Six newspapers report coroner hearing case of toddler who died after MMR jab; one reports the result: MMR not guilty.… Read the rest
Ben Goldacre Considers
Dec 12th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Scientific proof that we live in a warmer and more caring universe.… Read the rest
Blair Regrets Reticence About His ‘Faith’
Dec 12th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Thinks people are ‘comforted if they think the person leading them has some sense of spiritual values.’… Read the rest
Documentary Celebrates UDHR 60th Anniversary
Dec 12th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Shows 8 people who have fought to exercise their right to free speech; the last is David Irving.… Read the rest
