Archive for April, 2007
Student Sues to Counter Gay ‘Silence’ with ‘Truth’
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The president of a public high school's Christian Club is suing for the right to hold an event at the school to air his anti-homosexuality views. ...
Sex, Religion and the Moral Police-Hindustan Times
Two incidents over the last fortnight have provoked widespread outrage. The first is the attack on the Star News office in Bombay. The channel had offered shelter to a Hindu-Muslim ...
Texas lawmakers won’t require Bible classes
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A plan to require public schools to teach classes with the Bible as a textbook was changed by a Texas legislative panel to make such classes ...
Transgender Student Runs for Prom King
Gay youth advocates called it a landmark victory for campus gender expression and said they believe it's the first time in the U.S. that an openly transgender student has run ...
Jihadist Video Shows Boy Beheading Man
KILI FAQIRAN, Pakistan (AP) - The boy with the knife looks barely 12. In a high-pitched voice, he denounces the bound, blindfolded man before him as an American spy. Then ...
Hate Group To Protest At Student’s Funeral
APRIL 20--The reactionary religious group that has staged protests at funerals for soldiers killed in Iraq plans to picket at tomorrow's funeral for one of the victims of the Virginia ...
The Dawkins Delusion
While many Americans know Oxford professor and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins for The Selfish Gene, the 1976 science bestseller that portrayed all life as a struggle to propagate DNA, they ...
Murdering the Apostate Part 3: Harassment and Bribery
What kind of 'gift' would be so worthless a person would pay someone else $100 just to open it? What kind of person would become so ...
Planned Parenthood Condom TV Ad Mocks Religion, Angels
SAN FRANCISCO, April 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - PlannedParenthood Golden Gate (PPGG) has just released a "Safe is Sexy" television ad that features a young couple being interrupted from having ...
Indian protesters burn effigies of Richard Gere after public kiss
NEW DELHI (AP) - Angry crowds in several Indian cities are burning effigies of Richard Gere. It's happening after Gere swept a popular Bollywood actress into his ...
Murdering the Apostate Part 2: Identity Theft
[UPDATED 04.19.07]
It's hard to know whether to be flattered or disgusted. I guess I should take it as a strong measure of my effectiveness. Apparently my ...
Crucifixion makes God seem like a psychopath, says cleric
"What sort of God was this, getting so angry with the world and the people he created and then, to calm himself down, demanding the blood of his own son?" ...
Murdered preacher’s wife goes on trial
Freeland talked about a financial motive for the shooting in his opening statement. He told the 12 women and four men on the jury that Mary Winkler had deposited several ...
Sex and Nudity Aren’t Good Reasons to Fire Someone
I am so sick of the priggishness. Tired of people making assumptions about a person based on their perceptions of the other's sexuality -- especially when they base those assumptions ...
Abstinence classes don’t stop sex
April 13,2007 | WASHINGTON -- Students who participated in sexual abstinence programs were just as likely to have sex within a few years as those who did not, according to ...
Europe’s death wish
But who will be left standing to inhabit Europe when that happens? It's not going to be the people who run the place now. And it's certainly not going to ...
Food vs. Fuel - Round 2
The price of meat is set to rise in America as the nation’s helter-skelter dash to convert corn into road fuel begins to take its toll on the supply of ...
Simone de Beauvoir
January 9, 1908 - April 14, 1986
For most Americans who grew up in the 60's and 70's hearing the term, "the Beaver" hearkens back to nostalgic ...
Bangladesh sharia supporters kill prosecutor
DHAKA, Bangladesh - Unidentified gunmen in southern Bangladesh shot and killed the prosecutor in the case of six Islamic militants who were convicted and executed in a bombing that killed ...
Why do GLBT people bother with religion at all?
Queer people have been subjected to more than their fair share of such miseries, and Australia is no exception. Even in a supposedly secular state like Australia, the notion lingers ...
San Diego Diocese tried to hide funds in bankruptcy
April 11,2007 | SAN DIEGO -- A federal bankruptcy judge is threatening the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego with contempt for allegedly attempting to hide assets to avoid payment ...
Religious Family Values: Threats and Violence
A YouTube video making the rounds is just too good not to post. Thanks Hemant, and others! It shows something rarely ...
The Greening of Gingrich
In a heavily hyped debate – one that environmentalist Democrats hoped would be a “smack down” on Republicans -- former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich disappointed them and conservatives ...
PBS dropped ‘Islam vs. Islamists’ on political grounds
The producer of a tax-financed documentary on Islamic extremism claims his film has been dropped for political reasons from a television series that airs next week on more than 300 ...
Climate change becomes national security issue
WASHINGTON -- The CIA and Pentagon would for the first time be required to assess the national security implications of climate change under proposed legislation intended to elevate global warming ...