So what if he’s right that nothing contributes more to the destruction of the lives of gay people than Christians using the Bible as an instrument of brutality?
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Pink News on Dan Savage and student walkouts
Savage was addressing a group of students at the National High School Journalist Conference in Seattle.
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CNN on murder of Khalil Dale
Dale, a nurse who was managing a health program for the ICRC, was seized by armed men in the city of Quetta, near the Afghan border, the Red Cross said in January.
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Kidnapped aid worker Khalil Dale beheaded in Pakistan
His body was found with a note saying he had been killed by the Taliban. They had asked for a very large ransom which could not be paid.
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14 schools burnt down in Nigeria’s Borno state this year
In a video posted on YouTube in February, Boko Haram called on its followers to destroy schools providing Western education.
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Trial starts in faith-healing murder case
A state law that allows faith healing for Christian Scientists but not other religions is not arbitrary, an Okanogan County judge has ruled. O rilly?
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Mona Eltahawy and Leila Ahmed on misogyny
“The day my article came out, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia said that marriage for ten-year-old girls is permitted.”
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Evolution sceptics disguise their cause as free inquiry
The Tennessee bill required the state’s education system to encourage students to “respond appropriately and respectfully to differences of opinion about scientific subjects.”
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The Catholic League and suppression of the press
Donohue justifies the League’s aggressive behavior by claiming that it is culturally unacceptable for nonCatholics to criticize the Catholic Church.
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Galloway denies the part about the ceremony
Or is it the part about Kilburn?
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New Statesman on Galloway’s conversion to Islam
Interviewer Jemima Khan reports he converted a decade ago in a ceremony attended by members of the Muslim Association of Great Britain.
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Boko Haram bombs newspaper office in Abuja
At least nine people were killed and more than a dozen wounded in the attacks on This Day newspaper, for which Boko Haram claimed responsibility.
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Catholic church tells state-funded schools what to do
The Catholic church has written to every state-funded Catholic secondary school in England and Wales asking them to encourage pupils to sign a petition against gay marriage.
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The phony war on the nonexistent religion of secularism
There is no more effective way to organize against liberalism than to argue that liberals are invading the sacred precinct of the nuclear family.
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Add your voice to support Alexander Aan
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is organizing a letter-writing campaign
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Hurriyet on uproar in Egypt over sex with corpse law
Prominent Egyptian TV anchor Jaber al-Qarmouty criticized the whole notion of “permitting a husband to have sex with his wife after her death” on his show on April 24.
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The brewing community has a gift for the Muslim community
Jesus likes it, at least.
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Illinois bishop Daniel Jenky compares Obama to Hitler
131 Notre Dame professors demand that he withdraw the comparison or resign from the university’s Board of Fellows and board of trustees.
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Unicef: women and men in India think wife-beating is ok
“When girls are brought up with the message that a woman’s status in a family is inferior, she starts to accept whatever behavior is meted out by her husband or in-laws,” said Anuradha Gupta.
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New laws proposed for Egypt
One would legalize the marriage of girls from age 14, the other permits a husband to copulate with the corpse of his wife within 6 hours of her death. Yes really.