Atheists and others are practically giddy at a new data analysis that shows a correlation between an increase in Internet use and a decrease in religious affiliation. Writing at Salon.com, frequent critic of religion, Amanda Marcotte, celebrates the new data.
The UN General Assembly is set to debate whether to name 2016 as the Year of the Camelid. The resolution, sponsored by Bolivia, reads in part: Noting that camelids are strictly herbivorous, even-toed ungulate mammals that first appeared in America
A rapper using the name Tef Poe was among the delegation from Ferguson, Missouri to the Geneva-based UN Committee on Torture. On Twitter, Poe bragged he was going to Geneva “to slap these Ferguson pigs with war crime charges and torture charges.” Michael Brown’s
On Wednesday, a UN committee in Geneva asked State Department representatives what the federal government was doing to prosecute psychologists who help patients change their same-sex attractions. The questioning came during the U.S. report to the UN Committee on Torture
Harvard students are enjoying an opportunity to learn all the details of anal sex during what has become an annual event at the elite school. At a Tuesday panel called “What What in the Butt: Anal Sex 101,” experts from
The Washington, D.C.-based Human Rights Campaign, the world’s largest LGBT pressure group, has issued a report along with scare-videos called “The Export of Hate” that targets Christian conservatives who work on LGBT issues overseas. The targeted Christians are calling foul.
Are UN blue helmets about to march down Elizabeth Avenue in Ferguson, Missouri? They would have to be sent by the UN Security Council where the U.S. has a veto, so that’s unlikely. But Lesley McSpadden, mother of Michael Brown,
A delegation of American LGBT activists is traveling to Geneva, Switzerland tomorrow to make the case to the UN Committee on Torture that “conversion therapy” is a form of torture and should be designated as such in international law. They intend to
The joy parishioners feel this week that the Church of the Holy Innocents was saved from the chopping block is tempered by the fact that the priest who had a hand in saving it was transferred last spring by New York’s
Last week the Singapore High Court demurred in overturning Singapore’s 76-year-old law against men having sex with men. In deflecting the case, the High Court said the law was a matter for the legislature and that the court should not
In a huge setback for LGBT activists, this week, the high court of Singapore upheld the country’s ban on anal and oral sex between men. Challengers to Section 377A of the Penal Code argued that the ban violated their rights to
Last week, transgender military personnel from various countries allied with the United States convened a conference in Washington, DC to put pressure on the U.S. military to allow transgender soldiers to serve openly. Organizers claim more than 15,000 transgender soldiers now serve
A Catholic university located in Chicago has given its blessing to a student organization for “pagans,” according to The Campus Fix. Loyola University of Chicago, a Jesuit school, pushed back a little bit and asked the group to change its name
Transgender military personnel from a number of American allied countries met in Washington, D.C. this week to discuss what they say are the benefits of allowing open transgenders in active military service. Organized by the American Civil Liberties Union, the conference
Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi opened the October 7 press conference saying the conference organizers asked him to issue a declaration regarding the press reports about the new Vatican discussion document–which they said would liberalize the church’s standards–had “misrepresented” it. Lombardi
Vatican — Opposition increases in Rome as gays celebrate, traditional Catholics fret, bishops complain, and no one seems to be able to explain exactly what the document released Monday means for the Catholic Church. Late Monday night, experienced hands with
A gay advocacy organization’s bid to own a proposed “.gay” domain address has been rejected by the governing body of domain names. The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the non-profit body located in California that governs
VATICAN CITY, Vatican– Today, the Vatican released the controversial compilation document that will guide the Synod of Bishops next year. The document was put together by a committee and was intended as a distillation of the speeches given by Bishops
A new report from UN statisticians says their earlier predictions about global population stabilization are wrong and that we are on the cusp of major and dangerous growth. The UN Population Division has traditionally been an objective purveyor of information
Though it has been only a rumor until now, and has not yet been announced by the Vatican, a close associate of Cardinal Raymond Burke has told Breitbart News that the rumors of his departure are true, and the announcement
A small coalition of hard-left groups have called on GOP chairman Reince Priebus to “shun” several social conservative groups for their positions on homosexuality. An expensive full-page ad appeared in Wednesday’s Washington Post signed by the Southern Poverty Law Center,
German brothers and sisters are on the verge of being able to have sexual relations without worrying about breaking the law and going to jail. A government committee has said laws that ban incest are a violation of right to sexual self-expression.
After years of steady and even dramatic increases in support, a new Pew survey has found support for same-sex marriage declining. Pew found more Americans support same-sex marriage than oppose it, but that support had dropped five percentage points between February
Last Friday, to a packed hall at the modernist Ford Foundation building not far from the UN, former Sec. of State and presumptive presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said she was embarrassed that the United States has never ratified the UN
Pope Francis reportedly plans on removing Cardinal Raymond Burke from head of the Apostolic Signatura (Vatican “Supreme Court”) and relegating him to the largely ceremonial role as head of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. The new role would see
