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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Praying Nurse Refuses to Stop
Trust says patients must request prayer, Petrie may not initiate it; she says she cannot promise that.
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Believers Pitch Fit About NHS Guidelines
NHS discourages preaching on the job; people who want to preach on the job are furious.
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AU on Obama’s ‘Faith-Based’ Program
Public money should not fund proselytism and religious discrimination in the ‘faith-based’ initiative.
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Nadya Suleman Wanted a Huge Family
Said she wanted to make up for the loneliness she felt growing up as an only child.
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Simon Jenkins on ‘Fertility Wardens’
Funny how he keeps letting his misogyny show.
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Michelle Goldberg on Obama’s Capitulation
In his quest for ecumenical comity, Obama is suggesting he may capitulate on hiring rights.
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Praying Nurse to Return to Work
Another martyrdom nipped in the bud.
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Obama Reneges on ‘Faith-Based’ Programs
Takes a more ‘nuanced’ position on proselyitizing and discrimination in hiring. Oh swell.
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‘Mother of the Believers’ Got 80 Women Raped
She convinced them that suicide bombing was the only way to escape the ‘shame.’
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Bush Chief of Staff Tells Obama: Put Jacket On
Because wearing a jacket is what matters, not competence or attention or knowledge or skill.
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Jesus Discovers the Joys of Fideism
He may have the details a little wrong, but he’s content.
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Gregorius Nekschot at Free Press Society
Believers may discriminate against women and gays as they see fit, but they may not be criticized.
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Nurse Uses Job to Evangelize
Code of conduct: you must not use your professional status to promote causes not related to health.
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Nurse Suspended For Offering Prayer
She was there as a nurse, not as a cleric.
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Nat Hentoff on UN and ‘Defamation of Religion’
Why a gag rule on insulting religions is not a great idea.
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Radio Director Murdered in Somalia
The director of Somalia’s independent HornAfrik radio station, Said Tahlil Ahmed, has been killed.
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Mother of Octuplets Deluged With Media Offers
Mothers of dreary routine one baby at a time go unremunerated and unwatched.
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Sarah Chayes on the Taliban in Afghanistan
The corruption is so bad that people are starting to prefer the Taliban again.