A PUBLIC square outside a cathedral in Sydney, Australia, has become the focus of Catholic conniptions because an LGBT concert, ‘Heaps Live & Queer’, was staged there last week as part of a city council sponsored series of outdoor events. The row began brewing when posters for the show, depicted an image of St Mary’s Cathedral, began appearing in the city. Sydney’s Catholic Archbishop Anthony Fisher, above, was quickly on the case, and demanded the removal of the “provocative” posters… Read more
February 25, 2021
Too close for comfort: Catholics protest LGBT show outside a church
February 25, 2021 By Barry Duke
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February 24, 2021
Revenge: UK man trashes church over same-sex marriage vote
February 24, 2021 By Barry Duke
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A MEMBER of Mills Hill Baptist Church in Manchester was so incensed that fellow worshippers were about to vote on whether to allow same-sex ceremonies that he entered the premises last year and vandalised it. Now, according to this report, Patrick James, 58 – found guilty of doing £14,561 worth of damage to the interior, including smashing stained glass windows – has to wait until March 23 for sentence to be handed down at Minshull Street Crown Court. He is… Read more
February 24, 2021
Rabbi ‘nauseated’ by half-mast flags for Limbaugh’s funeral
February 24, 2021 By Barry Duke
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‘No Limbaugh, no attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6. That is how malignant he was.’ Those are the words of Florida Rabbi Jeffrey K Salkin, above, who expressed deep disgust over the fact that the Governor of his state – Ron DeSantis – had ordered flags to be flown at half-mast today (Wednesday) for hatemonger Rush Limbaugh’s funeral. In a blistering Religion News op-ed, Salkin wrote: I remember experiencing intense nausea as then-President Donald Trump awarded him the Presidential… Read more
February 23, 2021
Thai authorities are turning kids into fodder for Muslim clerics
February 23, 2021 By Barry Duke
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THE Muslim cleric pictured above – interviewed about the activities of youngsters in a Muslim part of Thailand – says that that object of a new morality squad is to ‘keep children 100 percent on the path of Islam.’ He features in a France24 video report that says that the far south of Thailand, on the border with Malaysia, is a Muslim-majority region in a largely Buddhist country. In the town of Yaha, authorities recently set up patrols to enforce… Read more
February 23, 2021
If extra-terrestials were discovered they would bear ‘Adam’s sin’
February 23, 2021 By Barry Duke
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MILLIONS of earthlings – including US President Joe Biden and former astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, 91 – expressed jubilation over the incredible landing on Mars of NASA’s Perserverance rover last Thursday. But crackpot creationist Ken Ham, inset above, wasn’t among them. Why? Because Ham, the “brains” behind Kentucky’s ridiculous Ark Encounter, believes there’s no point in spending money on finding extra-terrestrial life for two reasons: first, the search is a deliberate rebuking of God, and second because aliens are already… Read more
February 22, 2021
Missionary accidentally outed himself. Now he’s fighting gay ‘cures’
February 22, 2021 By Barry Duke
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SIX years ago, while doing missionary work for a Northern Ireland church, filmmaker Matthew Hyndman, above, was deeply conflicted over his sexual orientation. For as long as he could remember, homosexuality would lead to ‘eternal damnation.’ Over a period of three months he had deeply personal online conversations about his homosexuality with someone he never met. Then he accidentally attached WhatsApp exchanges with his confidant to an email sent out to 100 members of his congregation. In a piece penned… Read more
February 21, 2021
Limbaugh’s dead, leaving Planned Parenthood $1-m better off
February 21, 2021 By Barry Duke
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WHEN enterprising 25-year-old Tommy Marcus learned that Trump’s bigoted buddy had died he celebrated by donating $100 to Planned Parenthood. More than that he used social media to urge others to contribute to his newly-established Quentin Quarantino Rush Limbaugh Memorial Planned Parenthood Fundraiser. The result was nothing short of staggering, as the Instagram screenshot, above, shows. Who is Marcus, the man who uses the name Quentin Quarantino on Instagram? According to this report, he’s a University of Michigan graduate based… Read more
February 20, 2021
Nixon, God and the Moon: a bizarre moment in history
February 20, 2021 By Barry Duke
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TODAY, February 20, marks the birthday of Julian Scheer, above, who, in 1969 – while working as NASA’s Assistant Administrator for Public Affairs – was informed that President Nixon, was ‘big on God.’ In a conversation concerning what words were to be put on a plaque that would be taken to the moon by Apollo 11, Scheer – born in 1926 and the holder of a a degree in a journalism and communications – was told by NASA Administrator Thomas… Read more
February 20, 2021
Anti-abortion group slammed for spreading lies about vaccinations
February 20, 2021 By Barry Duke
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ANTI-ABORTION fanatic Bernadette Smyth, above, is known for saying stupid things such as ‘Jesus is in the womb of every pregnant woman.’ But she’s in the news this week over a different issue: COVID-19 vaccinations. The former Northern Ireland beauty counter assistant who has, “thank God,” never lost her interest in fashion, make-up and sparkly things, has been blasted by the World Health Organisation for using her position as head of Precious Life to spread dangerous information that’s putting “people’s… Read more
February 19, 2021
Chocolate company horrifies Christians with a ‘sexually intimate’ ad
February 19, 2021 By Barry Duke
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THE last time I featured homophobic crackpot Caroline Farrow, inset, she was having conniptions about Disneyland organising an LGBT event in Paris. Now she’s outraged that a commercial being run by multinational confectionery company Cadbury not only features two men sharing a Crème Egg, but are doing so during the ‘holy’ Easter period! The Catholic prodnose is now on a mission to have the ad banned, saying in a petition – so far signed by more than 24,000 bigoted halfwits… Read more
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