Richard Dawkins: “Faith School Menace?”

August 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Jerry Coyne relays this truly eye-opening new documentary from Richard Dawkins which aired in the UK last week: Here’s a link (thanks to Johann Hari) for donating to the cause of abolishing state funding of faith schools in the UK. Your Thoughts?

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A Dictatorship Of Relativism?

July 3, 2010 By 3 Comments

BBC Radio 4 analyzes the pope’s catchphrase, “a dictatorship of relativism”, used for describing the secular West.  Here’s the program description: The idea that no one has a monopoly on the truth seems to be fixed in the modern Western psyche. But it’s an idea that is under attack. Pope Benedict claims that we are [...]

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Geert Wilders Arrives In UK

October 17, 2009 By Leave a Comment

The story: From Wilders’s press conference: Here was Pat Condell’s response last winter when the UK banned Wilders from visiting: Your Thoughts?

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UK Doctor Opts To Leave Adoption Panel Rather Than Support Gay Adoptions

July 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Sheila Matthews’s story: The paediatrician had asked to be allowed to abstain from voting in cases involving same-sex couples. But that led to her being barred from the panel altogether. The married mother of one said she had been ‘made to pay for being honest and upholding my personal integrity’. ‘I don’t feel that placing [...]

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