Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
(CNN) –California Ban On Same Sex Marriage Struck Down: The California Supreme Court struck down the state’s ban on same-sex marriage Thursday, saying sexual orientation, like race or gender, “does not constitute a legitimate basis upon which to deny or withhold legal rights.” In a 4-3 120-page ruling issue, the justices wrote that “responsibly to [...]
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From the Think Humanist boards – if you can help, do help by checking out these previous blog-posts. Contributor To Australian Skeptic Fighting For Justice In Nigeria Update on Leo Igwe, Skeptic Needing Help In Nigeria MURDER CHARGE: INVESTIGATION DRAGS ON AND ON – Leo Igwe Yesterday, I was at the police station in Umuahaia [...]
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Recognised since 1999, after the United Nations General Assembly adopted the resolution, today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. UNFPA: Every day, women and girls are subject to domestic violence, exploitation, sexual violence, trafficking, honour crimes, harmful traditional practices, such as bride burning and early marriages, and other forms of [...]
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I’ve come across rather dodgy efforts disguised under genuine educational materials getting into schools before… but this is a new one to me, which I think should be better known to people. ABC News reports: The New South Wales Government says the Church of Scientology is targeting Year 6 students using “marketing” material that claims [...]
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Okay, right, it’s the weekend — and I’m blogging. Bleah. Never mind, I’ve got a lot of work on the horizon and I’ll zip off and complete it instead of writing much more on all of this. But I have to pop up some links and tidy up my blogroll first! First — an mp3 [...]
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Two volunteer groups have refused controversial powers brought in by the NSW Government to police “annoying and inconvenient” conduct at World Youth Day events. No frickin’ wonder. So what is this ‘annoying and inconvenient’? The Angry Aussie has his summation, about recent news on ‘arrest over offensive shirts worn in Sydney‘: [ New regulations passed [...]
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So, Amnesty International are doing a bit of a phone-around recently, getting a friend to sign onto their charity. They’re doing some awareness-raising about the situation in China, with a goal to construct huge yellow ‘walls’ all over Australia to represent the Chinese internet censorship regime known as the Golden Shield or the Great Firewall [...]
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One of the links that popped up eagerly from my online friends this morning?involved a teddy bear, which I didn’t really expect. KHARTOUM (Reuters) – A 7-year-old Sudanese student on Tuesday defended the British teacher accused of insulting Islam saying he had chosen to call a teddy bear Mohammad because it was his own name. [...]
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