Some people told the BBC that God decides how many children they have and so it would be wrong to try to limit the number of births.
Category: Latest News
Welcome to our archive of news stories relevant to the project of fighting fashionable nonsense. The stories are drawn from the electronic pages of the world’s media. On this page, you’ll find links to those stories that have been featured on Butterflies and Wheels during the current year. At the bottom of the page, you’ll find links to separate archives of stories from previous years.
We’re always pleased to hear about news stories that you think should be featured on Butterflies and Wheels. Just send an email here, if you want to point one out to us.
A note about links
Inevitably links go out of date. We suggest, therefore, that you make hard-copies of the stories that particularly interest you.
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Moscow authorities ban Gay Pride event
Amnesty International is calling on the Moscow authorities to overturn their ban on the city’s gay pride event, which had been set to take place on 28 May.
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The stealth assault on abortion rights
The flourishing of these church-based pregnancy counselling centres fits almost too neatly into the “big society” agenda.
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Tories whittling away women’s rights
These attacks are often dressed up in the language of compassion and hand-wringing arguments that women’s choices need to be confiscated for their own protection.
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Johann Hari’s podcast
He takes on the Pope – and argues with Ann Atkins, the hardline Christian, about why violence against gay people is rising again.
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God is punishing the US for allowing abortion
So he smites Tuscaloosa and Joplin, abortion capitals of the universe.
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Afghanistan: Taliban kill head of girls’ school
The education director in Logar said the teacher had received several death threats from the Taliban warning him not to teach girls.
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Telegraph: hey! you can see up Michelle Obama’s skirt!
Huh huh huh, really, you can, it’s windy, huh huh huh, look, huh huh huh, news, skirt, look, huh huh.
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Vatican to ponder condoms and AIDS
So that this morally bankrupt pack of child-rapists can tell the world not to use condoms but to get AIDS and die, instead.
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Vatican continues campaign to prevent condom use
Article in L’Osservatore Romano says condom campaigns increase the possibility of AIDS infection by promoting a false sense of security.
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UK: anti-abortion group to advise govt on sexual health
Some secular organisations have been growing increasingly worried that Tory ministers are opening up government to the agendas of faith-based groups.
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Miranda Hale eviscerates the bishops’ report
Thoroughly; very thoroughly.
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Haryana state, India: life in patriarchal hell
The ratio in Haryana is 877 women for every 1,000 men, so the men import women from less horrible places.
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Church of Scotland votes to allow gay clergy
A theological commission will now be set up and will report in 2013 before a final decision on the issue of gay ordination is taken.
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3d annual 3 Quarks Daily science prize
Lisa Randall will be the final judge for 3QD’s prize for the best writing in a blog or e-zine in the category of Science.
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Time for a nontheist history month
It’s consistently those who break with traditional faith who are the most likely leaders of progressive change.
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GP who recommended Jesus to patient will appeal
The Christian Legal Centre is making another try for a “Christians are being marginalized” case.
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France: feminists disgusted by misogynist comments
The sexist pro-DSK comments have mostly been made by left-wing politicians and commentators who would normally position themselves as feminists.
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The barmaid explains about promiscuous teleology
Children see supernatural agency everywhere, then they grow out of it. Or not.
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Catholic cardinal gives advice on ending child rape
No really, he does. “We have lots of experience,” he says, “so we’re best placed to tell you what to do.”