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Gay & Lesbian Humanist magazine
Sunday, Nov 30, 2008An online magazine for gay and lesbian humanists.The Pink Triangle Trust
Sunday, Nov 30, 2008The PTT is a charity for gay humanists and about homosexuality, aiming to educate and to assist those who’ve suffered discrimination.A good read for gays and for straight people
Sunday, Nov 30, 2008From Gay & Lesbian Humanist Magazine: It’s been a significant time for poetry and politics – and much else of course. And this is reflected in the second online issue of the newly relaunched Gay & Lesbian Humanist magazine, available now online. Politics doesn’t come much bigger or brasher than when it’s USA politics, of course, and President-elect Barack Obama was soon in the sights of Catholic bishops, who warned him that “the unity desired by President-elect Obama and all Americans at this moment of crisis” would be impossible to achieve, if the administration’s policies increase abortions.Dont be fooled by Samaritans Purse
Sunday, Nov 30, 2008Last year, I persuaded one of my local churches to withdraw their support for Operation Christmas Child, run by the Samaritan’s Purse charity, by explaining that its agenda is destructive. We still hear of local schools and organisations that are taken in by its ostensibly charitable purpose, encouraging children to fill shoes boxes with gifts for needy children overseas, unaware that they’ll arrive with a toxic message. The BHA offers suggestions for alternative ways to involve children in charitable giving during the festive season.Devout Christians no more likely to do the right thing than anyone else
Sunday, Nov 30, 2008From Suffolk Humansts & Secularists Chairman David Mitchell: On this morning’s Andrew Marr Show, Carol Vorderman reviewed the papers and made a comment that I for one am pretty fed up with hearing. She described the young parents of the recently born conjoined twins, who decided to take the pregnancy to full term despite knowing the children were conjoined, as “devout Christians”. Below is a comment I sent to the show via the BBC website.There Probably Is website
Friday, Nov 28, 2008Hello, I went to the “There Probably Is” website because Pharyngula said there was a poll on which the atheists were (slightly) winning. Sadly, they’ve pulled it. They’ve also redirected all the testimonies to email, so that they can be vetted before publication. So any slyly Swiftian ones will have to be very subtle to get through. Probably so subtle that the average evangelist will take it at face value.Equality? Not yet
Wednesday, Nov 26, 2008What’s this about, d’you think? Critics say it is wrong for the Equality and Human Rights Commission to give taxpayers’ money to a controversial organisation whose stance would be found objectionable by many members of the public. Neil Addison, a Roman Catholic barrister who specialises in religious discrimination, said: “It’s a bit like paying the Taliban to lecture on women’s rights.” This is from The Telegraph. I can imagine Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, encouraged by Martin Beckford, Religious Affairs Correspondent for The Telegraph, hopping up and down, incandescent with rage, at the news that the BHA will get a grant from the Equality and Human Rights Commission for a series of four events about the place of religion in public life.Credit crunch Christmas
Sunday, Nov 23, 2008It’s a sign of growing older (and grumpier), but I despair of people’s lack of common sense sometimes. For weeks, the media has been full of stories about the economic situation. Now the retail trade is in a state, anticipating that most people will spend less this Christmas. Meanwhile, the Consumer Credit Counselling Service reports a high number of callers with worries about the strain of Christmas on family budgets. It’s as well it’s not me answering the phones.There are probably lots of atheists out there
Sunday, Nov 23, 2008Since the Atheist Bus Campaign has made the headlines around the world, Christian organisations have been responding to its “There probably is no god” message. The Rev. Evan Cockshaw of the Evangelism and Outreach Team of Lichfield Diocese set up a new website, There Probably is a God, inviting believers to contribute their “stories of normal everyday people who aren’t stupid, and haven’t been brainwashed, but will talk honestly and openly about their experiences of the true and living God!IHEU News
Friday, Nov 21, 2008The November edition of International Humanist News is now available on the IHEU website. It includes features on Barack Obama; Humanism and Islam; and Caste and Untouchability. Both text and PDF versions are available. Tags: IHEU