RELIGION - INDEX

Pope attacks UK equality laws
Coded attack on the rights of women and gay people

Mayor Boris Johnson embraces anti-gay pastor
Rev Agu Irukwu is homophobic and divisive

"Kill gays” preacher hosted by London universities
Vice Chancellor urged to resign, after ignoring complaints

No Sharia rally in London - Oppose all religious laws
Call for secularism & universal human rights

Just say no to Sharia law - and all religious tyranny
Support courageous Muslims fighting fundamentalism

Anti-Semitic chief cleric of Mecca’s Grand Mosque feted in London
Sheikh al-Sudais urged to apologise for Jew-baitng hate sermons

Quakers agree same-sex marriage
Pioneering decision to open up religious marriage to gay couples

Exorcism of gays in the UK
Protest against abuse by fundamentalist Christians

The Queen endorses homophobic church faction
Letter of support for anti-gay Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans

Bigot bishop urged to repent his homophobia
Michael Nazir-Ali calls for gays to “repent and be changed.”

Stop Vatican interference - For a democratic, secular Europe
End the Vatican's privileges and its undermining of human rights

Pope is wrong and dangerous on "gay threat" to human survival
Gay sexuality is a part of human ecology and reduces over-population

English Catholics defy Vatican - Church leaflet offers gay support
Call for understanding and acceptance; rejection of homophobic oppression

Vatican goes psycho - New tests to weed out gay priests
Even celibate gay men will be banned from the clergy

Cardinal Newman triumphs – nature thwarts Vatican plot
Government collusion with attempt to violate Newman's wishes

Cardinal Newman's reburial illegal?
Jack Straw urged to revoke reburial license

Was Cardinal Newman gay?
Vatican claims of heterosexuality unsubstantiated

Cardinal Newman's love for Ambrose St John - The truth, the facts
Vatican spin doctors try to de-gay Newman in preparation for sainthood

Vatican to dismember Cardinal Newman's body - against his wishes
Jack Straw allows break up of corpse. Bones to be displayed as holy relics

Archbishop of Canterbury is prisoner of Lambeth Palace mafia
Gay split is re-run of row over evolution and votes for women

Lambeth Conference - Anglicans seek to appease homophobes
Archbishop of Canterbury puts church unity before gay equality

Qaradawi ban unwarranted and unmerciful - Don't stoop to his inhumanity
Hypocritical cleric wants medical treatment that he would deny to others

Muslim cleric urges secularism and human rights
Jihadism, theocracy and human rights abuses condemned

Religious fundamentalsts demand "the right to disciminate"
Bid to scrap sexual orientation regulations

Religious right defeated - a victory for modern, liberal Britain
Setback for zealous US-style Christian fundamentalism

Jerusalem Pride - anti-gay alliance of Christians,
Judaists and Muslims

They can't agree about peace, but hatred of gays unites fundamentalists

Muslim hypocrisy on free speech
Muslims who offend others demand that no one offends them

Killing gays is OK, says Muslim Imam
Manchester Imam defends execution of gay people

Pope is Queen of Homophobia
Benedict XVI ridiculed over anti-gay hate language

Iraqi gays force Sistani to remove 'kill gays' fatwa
Sistani urged to issue fatwa against homophobic murders

Archbishop of Cantebury appeases Nigerian homophobia
Courageous US Bishop condemns Nigeria's anti-gay repression

Muslim Council of Britain rejects gay dialogue
Action against homophobia axed, gays condemned

Tatchell backs liberal Muslims, Namazie attacks political Islam
Tehran condemned for inhuman abuse of women, children & gays

Hizb Ut-Tahrir - an open letter to Clare Short MP
Behind the smiles, the threat to democracy & human rights

Gay Muslims banned - Muslim festival says gay muslims
"give offence"
Festival of Muslim Cultures deems gay Muslim events unfit and unacceptable

Muslim Council of Britain - holocaust hypocricy & homophobia
More homophobia from the Muslim Council of Britain

Muslim leader urged: drop homophobia, unite against hate
Call for gay and Muslim solidarity against intolerance

Vatican gay priest ban is "bigoted and hypocritical"
Catholic leaders protect paedophiles, witch-hunt gay men

Defend LGBT Muslims against right-wing Islamists
Resist the homophobic Muslim Council of Britain & Hizb ut-Tahrir

Protest against Sharia Law in Canada - defend women's rights
No separate, segregated law for Muslims - One law for everyone

Defend Muslims - oppose Qaradawi & Islamic fundamentalism
Islamist clerical fascism threatens Muslims, Jews, women and gay people

Ken Livingstone hosts Qaradawi and sidelines
liberal Muslims, women and gays

Mayor invites Muslim fundamentalist to City Hall as honoured guest in October 2004

Cardinal shamed in Palm Sunday protest
- Vatican blocks gay rights at UN

Church protects paedophile priests, but persecutes lesbians and gay men

Homophobic African Bishops have "colonialist" mentality
But African liberation heroes support queer human rights

Anglican Synod halted by gay human rights protest
Archbishop of Canterbury accused of "betrayal"

Archbishop of York urged to "come out"
Appeal fixed to the main door of York Minster Cathedral

Blashemy law is dead
No arrests as illegal poem is publicly read and distributed

2000 years of Church homophobia
Christianity condemned for crimes against queer humanity.

Genocide in the name of God
The bible is to gays what Mein Kampf is to Jews.

Peter Tatchell's Easter Sunday trial

Background.

Tatchell’s Plea of Mitigation to the Court.

Day 1

Prosecution

Defence

Day 2

Tony Benn’s Character Reference.

MP’s Evidence and Summing Up.

Statement Outside the Court.

Stop crucifying queers!
OutRage!'s Easter Sunday protest in Canterbury Cathedral against Church homophobia is defended. Peter Tatchell's prosecution under an obscure 1860 Act - which gives the Church privileged protection against dissent - was a violation of free speech and the right to protest.

When will the Vatican apologise to gays?
It's time the Pope got down on his knees and apologised for the Catholic persecution of lesbians and gay men.

Was Jesus gay?
The sexuality of Jesus Christ is queried.


Islamic fundamentalism in Britain
Muslim fundamentalists are a growing threat to gay human rights in Britain


The new Dark Ages
The global threat of Islamic fundamentalism.

Rocking the boat
Jewish homophobia challenged.
Lesbians and gay men should not have to justify fighting homophobia.