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... the answer is "pretty damn horrible", okay?

Y'see Ireland has this law whereby abortion is made illegal. It's not actually supposed to include cases where there's a danger to the mother, but that didn't stop the recent ridiculously unnecessary screw-up. The law actually doesn't really so much stop abortions as make them extra specially difficult ( Read more... )

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This time Cardinal Keith O'Brien, the representative of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland decides to come out with the same BS that we've seen in the past. He says that Christians are being persecuted for wearing crosses in public.

0:31 Beginning of relevant report.
2:24 Interview with Andrew Copson on the issue.

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Guy decides to have a word with the people who spend all day shouting at people.

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The video announces that the green party have awful policies such as:
- Oppposing discriminatory hiring policies in schools!
- Favouring more effective counselling services in schools which will cater to people from multiple faiths and cultures!
- Promoting effective abortion provision for women who wish to terminate their pregnancy!
- Encouraging ( Read more... )

Suppose that you own a small business. You have a small store located in one of the millions of strip malls that have become the American landscape. One day, a couple of representatives from a local Catholic church come into your store and request a few minutes of your time. They show you a picture of large sign they want you to place in your store ( Read more... )

In the Values Voters Summit, a conference for whom it seems that even Fox News is too left wing, there's been a speech from anti-choice activist Lila Rose (whose claim to fame seems to be filming with a hidden camera and making completely uncontroversial discoveries).

Anyway, in her speech she says she wishes that women were forced to have their ( Read more... )

Recently certain elements of the pro-life lobby seemed to feel vidicated for the whole George Tiller scandal because they believed they'd seen a clear example of violence on the other side. James L. Pouillon, a pro-life activist, was shot dead while protesting. His protest involved holding up blown up images of aborted fetuses outside a school ( Read more... )

Ok, you spend ages without anything interesting to say about religion and then two points comes up at once.

First one seems uncontroversial, (from my side of the fence at least)
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God rejoices at abortion:
I found the text for Rachel's Tears online and was sickened to discover that the rite for abortion is couched wholly in terms of sin and ( Read more... )

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