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Ex-Irish President says infant baptisms violate human rights
Mary McAleese, Ireland’s President from 1997 to 2011 and an outspoken critic of the Catholic Church which she has described as ‘one of the last great bastions of misogyny’, has lashed out at infant baptisms. According to this report, she claimed that early baptism breaches fundamental human rights, calling babies baptised into the Catholic Church: […]
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We in the US lurched some big steps closer to full-on authoritarianism and even fascism this week (as we do most weeks). Am I sure we’ll end up there? No, but nor am I confident we won’t. We’re terrifyingly helpless to do anything about the relentless lurches. The nightmare of the children grabbed away from […]
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Muslims in India riot over ‘blasphemous’ underpants
AT least nine people, including five policemen, were injured after violent protests erupted in different areas of Srinagar, India, when news spread through the city that the “sacred” Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem had been printed on underwear. The structure on the garment turned out to be an historic cathedral in Italy. Police said they […]