In which the 55-year-old man allegedly has sex with a 12-year-old “plural wife.”
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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US: church attendance down among women
But belief in the devil is up.
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Israel’s secular liberals fight back
Because of the failure of the Oslo peace process, it no longer had a way to defend liberal values and to demand accountability from government.
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Christian midwife sues over hospital dress rules
She refuses to wear scrub trousers because the bible says women can’t wear “men’s clothing.”
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Ireland: cardinal tells sport bosses what to do
Sean Brady has asked GAA clubs to stop scheduling games at the same time as Sunday morning Mass.
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Review of BBC coverage of science
In 2010 the BBC Trust launched a review of the impartiality and accuracy of BBC science coverage. Here it is.
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Polly Toynbee on Tea Party thinking in Britain
A taste of the Tea Party arrives on these shores in the peculiar paranoia of the climate-change deniers.
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Nick Cohen on Britain as the capital of hate-talk
Both right and left are attracted to “transgressive” ideas and people. They’re playing with fire.
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Mexico: gay ministry under Vatican “scrutiny”
Bishop is trying to make gays feel welcome. Well we can’t have that.
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Vatican to issue “strong response” to Ireland
In its response, the Vatican will point out that it is the victim here, and the Irish government has a hell of a nerve.
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Afghanistan: “militants” hang a child of 8
His father, a police officer, had refused to give them a vehicle.
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Mina Ahadi and Maryam Namazie to Ayaan Hirsi Ali
With the advent of the Arab Spring, multiculturalism and cultural relativism are dead. This is an important strike against Islamism.
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Resist the far-Right in all its versions
Maryam Namazie points out that Islamism and the anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim European far-Right amount to the same thing.
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Student, age 11, challenges fundamentalist
Defends secular ethics classes in public schools. Well done, Charlie Fine.
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Egypt: Islamists take over demonstrations
Speakers at the Salafist rally egged on young bearded men to continue jihad and described them as “God’s army to implement God’s will on earth.”
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Still no sign of any humility at the Vatican
It can never again be acceptable for the church to undermine the Republic’s laws.
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More hate mail for atheists
“I love Jesus, and the cross and if you don’t, I hope someone rapes you!” says smiley woman.
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Loving Christians respond to atheist WTC case
Nail them to that cross then display it. Kill them all and let them see for themselves that there is a God. Shoot them. Shoot to kill.
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Quebec spa detox treatment leaves woman dead
The “treatment” consisted of being wrapped in mud, plastic, blankets, and a cardboard box for several hours with no water.
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Edzard Ernst calls P. Charles a snake-oil salesman
A tincture of dandelion and artichoke doesn’t do anything to detoxify your body and therefore it is a snake oil.