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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.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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The Home-schoolers Respond
Some of it is ugly stuff.
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Virginia: Public Colleges Cannot Ban Anti-gay Bias
Most of the state’s public universities have policies prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation.
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Russell Blackford on Gary Bouma on Secularists
Contrary to Bouma, attempts to use political power to impose religious views are highly divisive.
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Catholic School Expels Toddler: Parents are Gay
Denver Archdiocese posted a statement: the parents are ‘living in open discord with Catholic teaching.’
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Hitchens on the Ten Commandments
When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed, always ask which set.
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Academic Challenges Priest’s Homophbic Rant
‘To justify its persecution of homosexual people the Catholic Church draws on just three brief texts.’
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Liverpool Post on Airportoons Trial
Chaplain was ‘insulted, deeply offended, alarmed, concerned.’ Oh well then, there’s no more to say!
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Atheism is Illegitimate and Evil, Act LXXXVII
Ken Miller is good. Atheists are bad.
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No Venus de Milo for Rahway NJ, Thank You
Neighbor complained of naked snow statue, police told sculptor to cover it up.
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No Freedom of Expression for UK, Thank You
Atheist convicted of ‘religiously aggravated intentional harassment’ for cartoons; maximum sentence 7 years in prison.
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George Carey Says Politicians Bully Christians
It’s the other way around.
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Atheists Are the Source of Conflict in Society
Monash University Professor Gary Bouma says people without a specific faith fuel sectarian conflict.
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What We Celebrate When We Mark March 8th
Feminism has a compelling lens through which to understand marginalisation, as women have long occupied the margins.
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Madrid: Israel Protests Anti-Semitic Postcards
The Israeli embassy received postcards from schoolchildren accusing it of killing Palestinian babies.
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Lawyers’ Fees in Libel Cases Reduced
Scientists and journalists will be able to write in the public interest without giant legal bills.
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The Origin of Atheism
If theistic belief comes naturally, then it is atheism that needs to be explained.
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Teach the Controversy, on Everything
If somebody somewhere contradicts a scientific claim, that’s a controversy, so add it to the curriculum.
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Douglas Murray on Homophobia in Mosques
‘Only in a mosque in Britain could routine hatred like this pass by unnoticed and largely unobjected to.’
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Meera Nanda on ‘The God Market’
Markets are said to be exorcising the demons of religiously inspired fanaticism, patriarchy and oppression.