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November 2019

November 30, 2019

Utah boy, 11, subjected to anti-gay rant by substitute teacher

A BOY, who is the process of being adopted by a gay couple – Louis van...

November 30, 2019

Christian hate group slams C of E over relationship lessons

YESTERDAY (Friday) the Church of England published a new charter and resources to support schools...

November 26, 2019

Birmingham court permanently bans Muslim-led school protests

PROTESTS by mainly Muslim homophobes outside Anderton Park Primary School have been permanently banned by...

November 21, 2019

UK couple challenge compulsory school worship – and win!

AN 'antiquated' law requiring daily religious worship collapsed yesterday (Wednesday) in the face of its...

October 2019

October 19, 2019

Defiant headteacher says her illegal Islamic school will remain open

LAST month Nadia Ali, above, was found guilty by a  judge of running the unregistered Ambassadors...

October 16, 2019

US Supreme Court rebuffs student’s Islamic ‘indoctrination’ appeal

A  FEW years back Caleigh Wood, above, a student at La Plata High School in...

October 15, 2019

Kentucky school forced to scrap a ‘prayer collection’ locker

A DAFT decision to allow a student to install a 'prayer locker' on school premises...

October 09, 2019

Boy, 7, died after a beating at a Catholic school, abuse inquiry told

ALDO Moroni, a pupil at a prestigious Catholic school in Scotland, was beaten so viciously...

September 2019

September 22, 2019

Anti-LGBT bigotry celebrated at a Christian Concern Oxford shindig

IN June of this year, Andrea  Minichiello Williams, above, Chief Executive of Christian Concern, gleefully...

September 17, 2019

Christian teacher forced to resign over her support for gay marriage

AN Australian LGBT advocacy group has taken up the case of a teacher who was...

August 2019

August 31, 2019

Censorious Kentucky school head arrested on child porn charges

BACK in 2009, Phillip Todd Wilson, above, head of Montgomery County High School, found himself...

August 30, 2019

Israel’s lunatic Education Minister wants every kid to have a Bible

ACCORDING to new data released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Israel allocates...

August 24, 2019

US hate group defends Christian school against a voodoo priest

THE Pacific Justice Institute (PJI), headed by Brad Dacus, above, best known for his hysterical...

August 12, 2019

Republicans think churches are more important than colleges

A NEW Pew survey shows that while 67 percent of Democrats and Democrat-leaning respondents believe...

August 04, 2019

C of E Education Officer scorned for views on school worship

Rev Nigel Genders, above, the Church of England's Chief Education Officer, thinks collective worship offers...

July 2019

July 28, 2019

Snowflake Republican attacks immigration, feminism & secularism

A couple of things to note about State Senator Sylvia Allen, who represents Snowflake, Arizona:...

July 26, 2019

By law, S Dakota schools must now display ‘In God we trust’ signs

EARLIER this year, South Dakota's  Governor Kristi Noem, above, signed a daft law that compels...

July 12, 2019

Israel’s Education Minister compares intermarriage to the Holocaust

JEWISH groups have expressed outrage over a remark made recently by newly-appointed Education Minister Rafi...

June 2019

June 23, 2019

Jesuit school loses Catholic status for retaining a gay teacher

BREBEUF Jesuit Preparatory School is officially 'no longer Catholic' according to a diktat issued by...

June 18, 2019

Gay engagement: Catholic University accused of celebrating sin

THE head of a Catholic university in Maryland has annoyed bigots who got their panties...

June 17, 2019

Football coach who arranged a mass team baptism ‘is not normal’

NOT normal as in unhinged? Definitely! But when a pastor described Devin Roberts, head football...

June 03, 2019

Catholic school head arrested for being drunk outside a strip club

MICHAEL Comeau, inset, principal at the Holy Family Catholic school in Port Allen in Louisiana,...

June 02, 2019

Religion has no place in the education system, says UK gay journalist

THE law in England and Wales requires religious education to focus on Christianity. There must...

June 01, 2019

Edinburgh plans to oust religious reps from its education committee

AN Edinburgh Council member has angered the Catholic Church by insisting that religious representatives should...

May 2019

May 31, 2019

Lies about gay sex lessons are increasing tensions in Birmingham

The former Chief Prosecutor for Northwest England, Nazir Afzal , above, has accused mainly Muslim...

May 26, 2019

Muslim groups make history by leading Birmingham’s Pride festival

THE controversy in Birmingham over the teaching of relationship lessons took a remarkable turn yesterday...

May 20, 2019

Equality lessons: protests turn ugly as UK LGBT activists are targeted

LGBT activists, mainly female, were reportedly pelted with eggs last night when they came to...

May 15, 2019

Violence erupts over mandatory head-coverings at Tehran University

WOMEN resisting a law in Iran that forces them to wear 'modest' clothing and head...

May 12, 2019

Muslim v Muslims: UK relationship teaching row enters new phase

I SEE more trouble looming in Birmingham where mainly Muslims parents have been protesting for...

April 2019

April 26, 2019

House of Lords members received abuse over LGBT school lessons

THIS week the UK House of Lords backed the government's new LGBT-inclusive guidance on compulsory...

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