Giving our kids the option of thinking about ethics instead of picking up litter is a very slippery slope.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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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?
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The limits of free speech on campus
Holocause denial should not be a crime, but it should be dismissable incompetence.
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Some like God, others prefer the Hubble
With so many pressing problems on Earth, how can we afford not to try to focus on the things that unite us?
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Religious beliefs should not trump the law
If we had a large population of Aztec sun-worshippers here, would we accept their right to the occasional human sacrifice?
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Jesus and Mo are shocked, shocked at the FO
Why, they haven’t even fired the employee responsible! They just moved him to a different…wait…
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Sacked Christian counsellor’s appeal bid dismissed
Lord Justice Laws said legislation for the protection of views held purely on religious grounds cannot be justified.
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Ex-archbish pitches fit at ‘secular’ judges
Lord Justice Laws: “The law of a theocracy is dictated without option to the people, not made by their judges and governments.”
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Mojave cross ruling a blow to First Amendment
Supreme Court sends message: the government can treat a Christian symbol as a national emblem and display it on public property.
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No separation of church and state for you!
Majority on Supreme Court rules that a cross is not a Christian symbol.
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Westboro Baptist will picket McMillen graduation
“[We] will picket the graduation of Itawamba Agricultural High School to remind the parents, teachers and students of this nation that God” you know the rest.
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Nigeria: Senator Sani says girl is not 13
Refuses to say how old she is, says he does not care what women’s groups think.
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Mediawatchwatch on a bad week for free expression
Harry Taylor was sentenced, Molly Norris got scared, Kurt Westergaard and Lars Vilks got more of the usual.