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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.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Medicine and its rivals
The future for the alternative-therapy industry looks particularly bright in America. NCCAM continues to pay for research.
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Saskatoon Catholic church looking for trained exorcist
A spokesperson for the Archdiocese of Toronto told the Toronto Star that every diocese is supposed to have a priest trained to perform exorcisms. Toronto has two.
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Vending machines for “traditional Chinese medicine”
Take “mysterious ingredients,” steep them for hours, then dispense them “accurately” via a vending machine. Instant cure!
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PZ’s talk at GAC: Sacking the City of God
So how do you kill an idea? How will we sack the city of faith? By coming up with a better, more powerful idea. That’s the only way we can win.
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London Met v-c urged to apologise for alcohol comments
Claire Locke, president of the Student Union, said Malcolm Gillies had “offended” Muslim students by generalising about their beliefs.
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Belarus: Andrei Sannikov released from prison
Sannikov, the founder of the Charter 97 pro-democracy group, had been held since the crackdown on opposition in Europe’s last dictatorship in December 2010.
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Group of Catholics say Desmond Tutu isn’t good enough
Tutu supports contraception and the ordination of gay clergy, therefore he shouldn’t get an honorary degree from Gonzaga University.
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Indian Catholic church gets skeptic arrested for “blasphemy”
Sanal Edamaruku revealed that a “miraculous” weeping cross was really just a bit of statuary near a leaky drain whose liquid reached it by way of capillary action.
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Ex-archbish Carey demands more theocracy
“It is now Christians who are persecuted; often sought out and framed by homosexual activists,” he says. Disgusting thug.
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Niqab, bra, photo, censorship, controversy, confusion
Veiled women wear underwear too! Or something.
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Germany: daughters flee families to have their own lives
They don’t want to conform to the traditional values of the regions where their families come from. Instead, they want to live free, independent and emancipated.
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No “gay cure” ads for London buses
The posters, backed by Anglican Mainstream, read: “Not gay! Post-gay, ex-gay and proud. Get over it!”
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The Titanic sank to make a point
No event in history has done more to remind Western culture of the Christian doctrine of “women and children first.”
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Patriarchalists celebrate Titanic 100th
In biblical patriarchy, the refrain of “women and children first” hides an agenda whereby the women are “first” only insofar as they keep their place – subordinate to men.
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Salafists in Germany
A video appeared on YouTube apparently threatening journalists who reported critically on the Salafist Koran distribution project.
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US bishops vow disobedience to “unjust laws”
USCCB statement expresses disdain for court rulings against the bishops and pledges to deploy “all the energies the Catholic community can muster” to resist “totalitarian incursions.”
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Catholic bish says without Xianity you get Stalin/Hitler
Telegraph nods solemnly in agreement.
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Santorum and the politics of the very big family
In this election, and the birth control debate that is a significant part of its soundtrack, the convictions of the Quiverfull community seem to have made a mainstream debut.
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Sarah Posner on the Santorum legacy
At his press conference today, Santorum praised the family as “the moral enterprise that is America,” and thanked the 19 Kids and Counting Duggars for campaigning for him.