Atheist Ireland has consistently opposed the Civil Registration (Amendment) Act, 2014. This legislation was introduced by Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton, in order to allow both religious and secular bodies to solemnise civil marriages. By providing much more onerous criteria for secular bodies to meet, this legislation discriminates against ...
This month we learn from a study conducted in University of B.C. that the only group Religious people trust as little as rapists is.... you guessed it.... Atheists. The study showed that such people think Atheists good enough to do waitressing but not any job which requires any level of ...
Spates of angry Amish hair cutting and Satan turning people gay in the womb were all brushed aside by a landslide victory from Iraq this month. The story that so swamped our polls was of 17-year-old student Rand Abdel-Qader - beaten to death by her father for her crush on ...
Divine healing is the target for the ire of this months Award where on the advice of Evangelist Pastors three HIV sufferers have died following a cessation of medication. The women were advised to stop taking their drugs in favor of the healing of god. In a world where one ...
This month in the worlds clear bastion of love and equality known as Saudi Arabia a woman is to be whipped for the heinous crime of driving while being under the influence of.... being female. This in a country that does not yet allow women to vote but has finally ...
Back to form after last month’s horrific pedophile story being a clear winner, there is a two way tie again this month in the voting for the August prize, which should add to the horror of trying to pick an overall 2011 winner in January. The LA Times this month ...
Unusually there was one clear winner this month but the surprise fades away when one realizes why as it is yet another example of Religion being involved in the sexual abuse, and justification and/or cover up of the sexual abuse, of Children. Despite some votes going to Austria for acknowledging ...
In the true style of it being impossible for Atheists to agree on just about everything, Junes believer award was a three way split between the comical, the serious and the tragic showing that the vagaries of religion can leave us open mouth at just how badly the religious can ...
Another month of two winners. Can Atheists not agree on anything. Herding cats indeed :) The first of the winners is Kirk Cameron... the guy who on a hot day once started talking to himself in cars and decided that rather than this meaning he required serious medical input into ...
Theist obsession with sex figures yet again in this months winners list as we have two winners in joint first place around the topic of sex and sexuality. The first of the winners is the lugubrious Bill O'Donoghue who sees fit to tell us that many Child Abuse victims were ...