The church could no longer exclude women from power. This must not be!
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Telegraph Says No to Equality
Tolerance means letting other people exclude inferiors from power. Why can’t Labour understand this?
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BBC World Service on Football and ‘Faith’
‘A new generation of football players are bringing God back onto the pitch’; isn’t that wonderful.
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Harry’s Place on Hitchens on Westergaard
‘Then you pick up yesterday’s Guardian, and there’s a long article that says Westergaard asked for it.’
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God’s Economy
The plea of a backward-looking prophet crying in the midst of a welfare wilderness that only democracy can solve.
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Dubai: Woman Reports Rape, is Arrested
British woman reports a waiter raped her, so she and her boyfriend are arrested for ‘adultery.’
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Michael Totten Interviews Christopher Hitchens
These two religions make very large claims for themselves, and further say they should be immune from criticism.
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Aftenposten Publishes Motoons
The Norweigan newspaper printed small versions of six out of the twelve cartoons.
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Malaysia: Arson, Violence Over Who Says ‘Allah’
Protesters carried posters reading ‘Heresy arises from words wrongly used’ and ‘Allah is only for us.’
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Liberal Muslims Form a Group in Norway
The hegemony of the illiberal Muslims is finally being broken.
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Sweden: Lars Vilks Threatened for his Motoon
He got a phone call from a man who said that it was his turn next time.
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Julian Baggini on ‘Ethical’ Shopping
Never mind obvious consumerist tat, what about the more insidious stuff?
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Sikivu Hutchinson on the Morality of Choice
‘Precious’ is one more in a long line of contemporary US films that ‘omit’ reference to abortion as a viable life option.
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Gay Ex-Monk Fears the Pope’s Visit to UK
Because it will be a gift to the secularists…
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Russell Blackford on Nancy Graham Holm
What she has written is worth denouncing – soberly, deliberately, and in all seriousness.
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An Unknown Unknown: Tetrapod Tracks
It’s not only the date that’s got people excited, it’s also the location where these fossils were found.
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The Omniscient Reader Experience
A very droll review.
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Margaret Talbot Blogs on Perry v Schwarzenegger,
She analyzes the bizarre arguments so you don’t have to.
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Oliver Kamm Responds to Nancy Graham Holm
He is not impressed.
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Taj Hargey Responds to Anjem Choudary
A ban is just what the party-of-one Choudary wants. Ignore him.