Stoning to death would be codified and Islamic jurisdiction would be expanded into criminal law.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Real Men Think Church is Too Girly
Men like to be waited on – if they are not made to feel guilty. So tell the women to serve them! And smile!
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Pope Attacks UK’s Equality Legislation
‘The truth revealed through scripture and tradition and articulated by the Church’s Magisterium sets us free.’
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A Gift to the Creationists
A book titled What Darwin Got Wrong that’s not by a creationist.
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‘Homeopathic Remedies’: Real Cure or Nonsense?
There is no evidence that homeopathy works, yet it gets public funding.
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Haiti: Idaho Church Group Accused of Abduction
One girl, aged 8 or 9, was crying and saying, ‘I’m not an orphan. I still have my parents.’
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Catholicism Shrinking in South Jersey
It’s a start.
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Church Will Fight to Keep ‘Divine Right’ to Children
In Ireland the bishops and priests who controlled the schools behaved like dictators for generations.
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The Boston Globe on Howard Zinn
His books and plays are about the power of ordinary people to affect history.
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Oliver Kamm on Howard Zinn
If your heart is in the right place, the assumption is, then it doesn’t matter if your scholarship is sloppy.
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‘New Perspectives on Faith and Development’
Tony Blair Faith Foundation, Islamic Relief et al. to host ‘groundbreaking’ seminars on Faith and Development.
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Simon Singh and Andy Lewis on Homeopathy
Filmed by Stephen Law at the CFI UK Trick or Treatment event.
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Roeder Convicted of First-Degree Murder
It took jurors 37 minutes to convict Scott Roeder of first-degree murder in the death of George R. Tiller.
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Questioning Homophobic Pseudoscience
‘That a child needs a male parent and a female parent is so taken for granted that people are uncritical.’
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Ogling Teaches Women to Self-objectify
When a female believes her body is being sized up by a male, she’ll diminish her presence by speaking less.
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Orthodoxy Enforcement at Wheaton College
Wheaton is nondenominational, but has a detailed statement of faith that all at the college must follow.
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Iran Executes 2 Mohareb or ‘Enemies of God’
The prosecutor’s office said nine other detained protesters have been condemned to death as Mohareb.
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Johann Hari on Corruption in America
It has reached the point that lobbyists now often write the country’s laws. Not metaphorically; literally.
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Tesco Says No Shopping in Pyjamas
Buffoon doesn’t see why, she only wanted a packet of fags, she would have worn clothes for a full shop.
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Blair is Sorry the War Was ‘Divisive’
He acknowledged ‘things obviously look quite different’ now given the failure to find any weapons.