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Cardinal O’Brian might hate the idea … but Scotland is going to give the nod to Gay Marriage

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Cardinal O’Brian (the leader of the Catholic church in Scotland) has been running a vigorous campaign that touts gay marriage as inherently evil and immoral, yet Scotland is now ready to simply steamroller over all that and give it an official legal nod … why? As in interesting insight, Jane Carnall writes in the Guardian … Read more

Catholic Homophobia in Scotland

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The news is that the Equality Network (a group that works for equality and human rights in Scotland) commissioned Ipsos-MORI to survey Scottish attitudes towards marriage and found that of 1,003 people asked, 64 percent supported the idea of allowing gay and straight couples an equal right to marry. Hey, that’s quite good news. Ah but not everybody thinks … Read more

Your Support Needed – Indian rationalist Sanal Edamaruku vs the Catholic Church

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First the background – Hopefully you are already familiar with it all A couple of months ago Sanal Edamaruku, the President of the Indian-based skeptic organization Rationalist International, was invited by an Indian TV channel (TV-9) to visit a Catholic Church in Mumbai to offer his opinion of a claimed miracle. He is well-known in … Read more

offending religious feelings … gets you a prison sentence in Spain

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People get offended by many things … smoking, chewing gum, spitting, etc… but there is apparently one very special category of offence in Spain, “offending religious feelings”, apparently that will potentially get you jail time. The news is that one of Spain’s leading underground artists has been charged with this, appeared in court and now faces … Read more