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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.
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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Islamic schools in the UK
Many use a Saudi Arabian government curriculum that contains anti-Semitic and homophobic views, not to mention subordination of women.
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A message about same-sex marriage
Timothy Scriven notes: “This is not a small issue and we should not be patient.”
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Oh noes! Atheists at a skeptic conference!
Atheism is “harming the cause.”
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Nasim Zehra: time to repeal blashphemy law
There is a long list, prepared by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, of unjust punishments handed down to Pakistani citizens.
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Ahmadinejad says girls should marry at 16-18
They stay out of trouble that way.
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Asma Jahangir on Pakistan’s blasphemy laws
When the Lahore High Court has sentenced Aasia Bibi to death for blasphemy, under section 295-C of Pakistan’s Penal Code.
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Mary Kenny on the pope’s condom rulings
Most people will see the pope’s New Idea as “sensible and compassionate.” No they won’t.
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Religion a force for good?
Grayling: “Wherever religiions are on the back foot, they suddenly become very friendly, very concessive and very tolerant.”
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Where are you on the Great British Faith Map?
There’s a Sikh in Devon. There’s a Lutheran in Humberside. There’s a Pentecostal in Norfolk. There’s a Zoroastrian in London.
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Interfaith Week starts today
So get your interfaith costume on and let the fun begin.
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Doctors angry about drug price manipulation
Consultants claim current regulation allows pharma companies to tweak medicines and patent them as a new drug with a new price.
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Vatican plays down pope’s condom remarks
Vatican spokesman Fr Federico Lombardi said it was a big fuss about nothing.
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Vatican rushes to clarify pope’s condom remark
He didn’t mean that. All he meant was. Fixation. Disordered sex. Courageously, important contribution, clarifying and deepening.
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The vote on amendment to UN resolution
For: China, Russia, most of Africa, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq. Against: Europe, Anglophones, India, most of Latin America.
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UN: gays deleted from resolution against arbitrary killings
In 2008, Uganda attempted a similar amendment that was defeated, so the vote this week was a step backwards.
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Mormons say it’s not a sin to be gay
The church still insists that followers resist having gay sex and they oppose same-sex marriage, but this is a step.
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Marc Alan Di Martino reviews Why Truth Matters
An essential guide to the perplexities of postmodernism.
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Barbara Forrest on pro-science Louisianans
Louisiana has citizens who are trying to stop the damage that the Louisiana Family Forum and their allies are doing to Louisiana science education.
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Fickle Politics and the fear of a Hindutva planet
Gradually Hindutvaism became the cause célèbre of the trendy left liberal intelligentsia in parts of the Guardian and the New Statesman.