Religious people have more babies than non-believers–and not just for the obvious reasons.
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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Michelle Goldberg on Rick Warren
He compares legal abortion to the Holocaust and gay marriage to incest and paedophilia.
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Islington Council Wins Appeal
Lillian Ladele’s solicitor reacts with a torrent of gibberish.
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UN Again Votes to Ban ‘Defamation’ of Religion
‘Islamic states say such resolutions do not aim to limit free speech but to stop publications like the Motoons.’
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Vatican Sets Us All Straight on Human Rights
Human rights mean: right to life, respect for the family, marriage as the union between a man and a woman.
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UN Urges States to Decriminalize Homosexuality
Proposal has ‘provoked the ire’ of the Vatican and some majority-Muslim countries.
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Obama Defends Rick Warren Invitation
Why, of all the pastors in the US, choose one who campaigned for Prop 8 and compares abortion to the Holocaust?
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Women’s Rights Activist Killed in Kirkuk
Iraqi police say attackers decapitated the leader of the women’s league of the Kurdish Communist Party.
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The Epistemology of the DSM-V
‘In psychiatry no one knows the causes of anything, so classification can be driven by all sorts of factors.’
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Earnings Were a Mirage But Bonuses Remain
Banks plan to pay bonuses despite needing billions of dollars of taxpayers’ money to survive.
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Anti-gay Evangelical Chosen for ‘Invocation’
Choice of Rick Warren is seen as a signal to religious conservatives that Obama will listen to their views.
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Rick Warren is a Culture War Wolf
Obama had thousands of clergy to choose from, and the choice of Warren is a bow to the religious right.
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South Korean Actress Sentenced for Adultery
Judges always rule that adultery is damaging to social order, and therefore must remain a crime.
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HRW Urges Action on Reforms for Migrant Women
Governments in the Middle East should act quickly to fulfill promises to protect migrant women’s rights.
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Free Speech Rapporteurs on ‘Defamation’
Restrictions on freedom of expression should never be used to protect institutions, abstract notions, or beliefs.
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Cheney Says Waterboarding is Okay
ABC asked him if in hindsight he thought the tactics went too far. ‘I don’t,’ Cheney said cheerfully.
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The Cost of Mbeki’s ‘Beliefs’ About HIV
Had South Africa’s government provided the appropriate drugs, it would have prevented 365,000 premature deaths.
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Jesus, Mo and Barmaid on Science and Theology
Science is limited by its refusal to make stuff up.
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HRW on the Kiwanja Massacre
Survivors could only run to the UN base half a mile away and cluster outside the fence for protection.
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Muslim Think Tank Finds Sharia Unfair to Women
‘I told them I had been forced and this was not Islamic, but they disagreed.’