A DAY ahead of the papal conclave, faces at the scandal-struck Vatican were even redder than usual after it emerged that the Holy See had purchased a €23 million share of a Rome apartment block that houses Europe’s biggest gay sauna...The sauna’s website promotes one of its special “bear nights”, with a video in which a rotund, hairy man ( Read more... )

Two niqab-wearing women assaulted and forcefully cut the hair of a Christian woman on the metro Sunday, the third such reported incident in two months, raising fears of a growing vigilante movement to punish Egyptian women for not wearing the veil in public.

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Lawmakers in Iran are preparing to consider legislation that may drastically alter ( Read more... )

I've been hearing that for years from fauxgressive men who don't have to worry about their bodies being controlled. Despite the fact that pro-liars have been inveighing against contraception for years. (Of course, if you don't pay attention to gender politics because it's "identity politics" or "not real politics," you're not going to hear about it ( Read more... )

Some of them will die.

That article appeared on Jezebel not long after its sister site IO9 reported on the five-year longitudinal "Turnaway Study," which found abortion to carry no more psychiatric consequences than carrying an unwanted pregnancy to term does and to be safer, even when late, than childbirth ( Read more... )

I would really rather not watch the anti-contraception video created by a bunch of right-wing nuns in Ohio that has been posted at DailyKos, Jezebel, and Joe.My.God. because I would like to retain those precious brain cells, but here is the summary of things you may learn from it ( Read more... )

From matrexius: An American friar claims that teenagers "seduce" priests in certain cases.In a recent interview with the National Catholic Register, Father Benedict Groeschel, of the conservative Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, said that teens act as seducers in some sexual abuse cases involving priests ( Read more... )

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I don't know if the United States' useless mainstream media has covered it at all, but white Israeli Jews have of late been turning violently on African asylum seekers, whom right-wing politicians have criminalized and demonized as "a cancer in our body."

The historically cosmopolitan and tolerant city of Tel Aviv has seen riots in which white ( Read more... )

D'awwwww.


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Samuel Frederick ("Fred") Biery, Jr., Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court in San Antonio, ruled last year on a church/state case involving prayer at a Texas high school, against the Medina Valley Independent School District. His decision was overturned on appeal and returned to his court for further action.

"Over the last several months," ( Read more... )