According to a recent Melbourne Age report, the National Centre for Islamic Studies has slammed toleration of spousal rape, domestic violence and polygamy amongst some Melbourne Islamic leaders, according to the Melbourne Age. 
 The clerics were slammed for selective interpretation of sharia law, obstructing police investigation of domestic violence claims within their communities, and performing illegal polygamous […]

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There seems to be a regular stream of items to do with religion and politics today, so I’m going to segmentise them. Here goes…
Queensland: The mainline Queensland Council of Churches is urging Anna Bligh’s ALP Queensland state government to ban hitting kids.News of church involvement in the debate came as a group of prominent psychologists […]

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With the Key administration in power in New Zealand, there is now talk of repealing the Electoral Finance Act. However, there are other policy issues that shouldn’t be neglected, either, such as industrial relations and educational policy.
I held back summarising all of Michael Bachelard’s excellent Behind the Exclusive Brethren (2008) until I had a clearer […]

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First it was a display of octogenerian nun-violence in Italy, and now, two groups of feuding Orthodox monks are getting hot under the clerical collars in Jerusalem…
Greek Orthodox and Armenian monks got into a stoush with one another just outside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and ornaments and furnishings didn’t fare well as the […]

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Having been repelled from protesting at a Toronto play that satirised their rabid homophobic urges, infamous Topekan misfits the Phelps clan are currently planning to inflict themselves on Vancouver, instead, after spotting a planned performance of Matt Shepherd’s memorial, The Laramie Project, was about to materialise.
Over a decade ago, Matt Shepherd was murdered by Russell […]

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According to PinkNews, ambulatory Brit uberphobe Stephen Green (”Christian Voice”) is at it, again. This time, he’s pressured Waterstone’s bookshop chain to cancel a series of poetry readings from poet Patrick Jones, who was about to launch a series of new poems, Darkness is Where the Stars Are, and sign books at Waterstones Cardiff.  Blasphemy, […]

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Normally, I don’t pay much attention to the tiny Catholic Right pressure groupuscule Family Life International, positioned as it is on the fringes of that church. However, I noticed that their blog, Semper Vita, attacked Kevin Hague, the new LGBT Green MP, recently…
FLI worries that Kevin has attracted little media attention. They explain that he’s […]

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 An Italian restaurant owner, (Name Withheld) said he was subjected to wanton brutality by two brutal octogenerian nuns and a priest in a violent row about restaurant ownership!
 (Name Withheld) stated that when he arrived at the premises, the sinister women religious and their male sidekick were engaged in excessive nun violence toward property and tableware!! […]

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At the Gateshead Baltic Centre, an unholy row has blown up over an allegedly ‘indecent’ statue of Christ, which was included within an exhibition that included several male plaster figures with conspicuous groinal protrusions. Terrence Koh’s “Gone Yet Still” exhibition was featured at the gallery from September 2007 to January 2008.
Fundamentalist Emily Mapfuwa (40) of […]

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According to the centre-right US Hoover Institute’s Paul Brady, the Republican Party must jettison social conservative stances on abortion, same-sex marriage and immigration, or else face permanent consignment to the political wilderness for the next few decades.
Brady argued that the party had moved too far to the right, and had thus alienated many former supporters. […]

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