AN evangelical preacher who gatecrashed a Drag Queen Story Time event in Ottawa got short shrift from parents, who objected to the way he loudly abused performer Adrianna Exposée. The preacher, Dorre Love, was booed by the parents when he began spouting biblical baloney and accused Exposée of “dressing like a whore”. He also asked those attending the event: Are you teaching children to be whores? Love was one of a group of religious protesters who interrupted the Westcliffe Community Centre… Read more
August 20, 2019
Preacher abused a drag queen and threatened kids with hell
August 20, 2019 By Barry Duke
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August 19, 2019
Student wrongly accused of ‘racism’ for criticising ritual slaughter
August 19, 2019 By Barry Duke
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AN exam board has admitted it was wrong to punish a 16-year-old Eastbourne pupil for making what it said were ‘obscene racial comments’ in a GCSE exam. Abigail Ward, a strict vegetarian, wrote in a Religious Studies exam that she found the idea of halal meat “absolutely disgusting” – a view shared by millions, myself included. The decision was only overturned when her school, Gildredge House in Eastbourne, appealed the decision, insisting that the pupil had been expressing her horror of halal butchery and… Read more
August 18, 2019
Muslim cleric killed by a cow he was about to sacrifice to Allah
August 18, 2019 By Barry Duke
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QURBANI or Udhiyah as it known in Arabic, is the word that describes the barbaric sacrifice of an animal to Allah during the period of Eid ul Adha. But the ritual went horribly wrong for a Muslim cleric in East Java when he was struck by a “big, fierce” cow which had broken free from its tethers. The cleric, named only Sureki, 64, died on Wednesday evening at Ngudi Waluyo Hospital after lying in a coma for three days. Sureki … Read more
August 18, 2019
NJ Mayor opposes gay history lessons. ‘Activist Mommy’ mouths off.
August 18, 2019 By Barry Duke
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FOLLOWING her humiliating failure to shut down a Drag Queen Story Hour in Florida this month, the poisonous Elizabeth Johnston, aka the ‘Activist Mommy’, is now trying to rally support for a New Jersey mayor who opposes a new law that requires school to teach about the positive contributions made to society by gay people. After Mayor Alfonso Cirulli, a former teacher and assistant principal, called the LGBT movement “an affront to almighty God” and said that anyone who supports… Read more
August 17, 2019
UK schools are accused of shirking their duty to teach RE
August 17, 2019 By Barry Duke
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FORMER RE teacher Ed Pawson, above, now Education Officer for the Diocese of Exeter, is lamenting the fact that fewer students are choosing to study religious education at A-level. Commenting on new figures that reveal a two-year drop of 28.9 percent of students choosing the subject, Pawson noted: Data shows a third of schools are not teaching RE properly. He wants more pressure to be put on education watchdog Ofted to: Take more notice when they inspect schools as to whether schools… Read more
August 17, 2019
‘Gay bus’ row: Christian Legal Centre enters the fray
August 17, 2019 By Barry Duke
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EARLIER this month a bus driver in the UK city of Norwich was suspended for refusing to drive a bus that ‘promotes homosexuality’ by having its service number displayed in rainbow colours. We now learn via Church Militant that Andrea Minichiello Williams, Chief Executive of the Christian Legal Centre and Champion of Persecuted Jesusites Everywhere, inset, has weighed in, saying: If the driver’s objection to the rainbow colours was based on his religious or philosophical beliefs, it is illegal for… Read more
August 16, 2019
Leading US abuse lawyer launches two lawsuits against JWs
August 16, 2019 By Barry Duke
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A LAW that came into effect in New York this week temporarily lifts the statute of limitations for civil suits alleging abuse, regardless of the age of the plaintiff or how long ago the abuse allegedly occurred. The Child Victims Act, according to Newsweek, opened the way for attorney Irwin Zalkin, above, to announce at a press conference that he was launching two lawsuits against eight members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses Governing Body on behalf of Heather Steele and Michael Ewing, who… Read more
August 15, 2019
‘The Activist Mommy’ scores a magnificent own goal in Florida
August 15, 2019 By Barry Duke
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WHEN ‘Activist Mommy’ Elizabeth Johnston, above, got wind of the fact that a Drag Queen Story Hour was to be staged last weekend at the Community Cafe in St Peterburg, out came her foghorn. From her base 1,000 miles away in Ohio, the Christian mother of ten used social media to call on her Christian “warriors” to protest the event and shut it down. But it all went horribly pear-shaped for her when a large crowd did turn out …… Read more
August 15, 2019
Priest who joked about the sexual abuse of deaf kids is put on trial
August 15, 2019 By Barry Duke
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BACK in 2017, Nicola Corradi, above, was filmed in Italy by an undercover reporter joking about the sexual abuse of impoverished boys and girls at Argentina’s Instituto Próvolo for deaf-mute children. The frail Corradi, together with fellow priest Horacio Corbacho 61, and former gardener Armando Gómez, 49, is now on trial in Mendoza, Argentina. The trio face more than two dozen charges of sexual abuse and corruption of minors who were students at the Insititute, located in the town of… Read more
August 14, 2019
Fast-food employee offers prayers with ‘Jesus chicken’ meals
August 14, 2019 By Barry Duke
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CHICK-FIL-A, the faith-based US food chain which generously funds anti-gay outfits, got itself into Fox News recently when one of its employees at its Madison, Alabama, branch was photographed praying over a customer. The picture of Stephen Spray giving a dollop of Jesus to the woman was caught on camera by Brittany Calden, a professional artist and photographer who runs Brittany Calden Photography in Madison. Later she posted in on her Facebook page. Fox News reported that Calden was moved… Read more
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