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Posted in Human Rights, Humanity, Morality, Relationships, Religion on Jan 7th, 2010
There is a sick theme running through all of this - or at least a clear attempt to involve some form of mental illness, and an attempt to bring in the people in white coats - well, at least psychologists if not psychiatrists.
Hey, I really, really don’t want to jump on the bandwagon and pour [...]
Posted in Education, Human Rights, Humanity, Morality, Relationships, Religion, Society on Jan 23rd, 2009
Some time ago I wrote about the case of Anna Ciriani (What has sex got to do with it?) who lost her job as teacher in Italy because of her extra curricular activities as an internet porn star. I argued that provided that these activities didn’t interfere with her classroom professionalism and delivery, that she should [...]
Posted in Faith, Human Rights, Morality, Religion, Terrorism on Jun 13th, 2008
Yesterday a British court convicted the wife of a failed suicide bomber for failing to tell police about his plans for an attack on the London underground system. A jury in London found 32-year-old Yeshi Girma guilty of failing to provide information before her husband Hussain Osman and others attempted to set off explosions [...]
Posted in Education, Human Rights, Humanity, Morality, Relationships, Religion, Society, Uncategorized on May 3rd, 2008
Perhaps it’s my age. I find myself getting very angry at things these days. Years ago I would have rebuked myself for that and told myself that anger was wrong. Now I just see it as a healthy emotion in response to injustice and threat.
Although I first read about this story several [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Law, Morality, Religion on Feb 8th, 2008
It’s Friday, and I am again indebted to the National Secular Society’s newsletter for the following information. After you have read it, please consider following the link to send an appeal to the Iranian authorities to stop the stoning of Zohreh and Azar Kabiti-niat.
Iranian Sisters face being stoned to death
Two Iranian sisters [...]
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