Religion
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Doing it for the Clicks, Ms Blumner
It was brought to my attention that the tired excuse for when one doesn’t like something that was said on the internet was trotted out by the new CEO of Center For Inquiry, Robyn Blumner. It seems defending the old-school status quo is far more important than bothering with facts. Via source and source: “Robyn Blumner, in her interview with…
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Global Quickies: Ban on “Wine”, Witch Camps Closing, and Blasphemy
PAKISTAN “A teenage boy cut off his own hand after being told he was a blasphemer by an imam. The police arrested the cleric, accusing him of using hate speech to incite violence. UK “Campaign group Stonewall today names MI5 as Britain’s most advanced and inclusive employer when it comes to ensuring the nurturing and development of its lesbian, gay,…
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Center for Inquiry Merges with Richard Dawkins & His Twitter Account
Good news for those of you who were worried that Richard Dawkins had flushed all his credibility as a rational person down the toilet by telling the mothers of people with Downs Syndrome that they’re immoral for not having an abortion, setting a mob on a 14-year old Muslim boy, and ranking rapes by how bad he thinks they are: Center for…
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Global Quickies: Coordinated Sexual Assaults, Distracting Bras, and Racists All Over
GERMANY “The mayor of Cologne has summoned police for crisis talks after about 80 women reported sexual assaults and muggings by men on New Year’s Eve. The scale of the attacks on women at the city’s central railway station has shocked Germany. SPAIN An American couple was arrested in Spain after police found his seven-year-old son’s decomposing body the family’s…
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Global Quickies: Noodly Weddings, ‘Accidental’ Rape, and Girls Rescued from FGM Ceremony
NEW ZEALAND “New Zealand has given approval to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster to carry out marriage ceremonies in the country.” JAPAN (From Mary) “The Japanese Supreme Court has upheld a law that married couples must have the same surname, in a blow to women’s rights activists.” UK “A millionaire property developer has been cleared of raping a…
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Global Quickies: Tampon Tax, Anti-GMO Bomb Attacks, and a Guardian Angel for Easy Parking
GERMANY “German police have arrested five members of a South Korean family suspected of beating to death a 41-year-old woman in a religious exorcism ritual in a hotel room.” EUROPEAN UNION A British geneticist and entrepreneur was uninvited as a speaker at a science and entrepreneurship conference organized by the European Commission because they were not “enthusiastic” about her traveling…
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It’s Not “Prayer Shaming.” It’s Hypocrite Shaming
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sorta transcript: The New York Daily News, usually known for conservative tabloid garbage covers that revel in appealing to the lowest common denominator, has finally made a cover that many liberals can get behind. They call out Republican presidential candidates as “cowards” who tweet their “thoughts and prayers” to victims after mass shootings…
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Global Quickies: Religion of Rebates, Condoms for Inmates, and Pregnancy Alert
EUROPEAN UNION Poland and Hungary block EU proposal on property regimes of married and registered couples (including same-sex couples), arguing that this proposal infringe their sovereignty and interfere with the national identity, traditions and values related to family and society. MALAWI In Malawi, where same-sex sexual activity is illegal, government policy does not allow condoms to be distributed in prison,…
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