No Right Turn

National seems to have chosen charter schools as their hill to die on. Their supposed reason for this is that they're "better"...

We will soon find out what 'unity' really means for the Palestinians Can Christians stay in the Middle East now that they are being...

David Hines has a remarkable OIA project on religious education in state primary schools . Over the past year he has requested information f...

The 2013 Census data tables are out - which leads to my five (now seven, due to an earthquake) yearly post on religious demographics. The h...

The Human Rights Review Tribunal has ruled in the case of Gay and Lesbian Clergy Anti-Discrimination Society Inc v Bishop of Auckland [PDF]...

The Exclusive Brethren (of Hollow Men fame) want to integrate their private school system to scam more money. Unlike other integrated scho...

Scientology is a quack cult, invented by a third-rate science-fiction author as a tax-dodge. So why is our government paying for their quack...

Giving taxpayers' money to Christian quacks to teach creationism : Plans for a school to teach creationism as well as evolution have r...

The Ugandan Parliament is currently debating a bill which would allow the death penalty for homosexuality . The Catholic Church normally ...

Over the past two decades, there has been a growing awareness of child sex abuse committed by Catholic priests , and of coverups by the Cath...

Earlier in the week, Destiny Church (most famous for organising the "Nuremberg rally" against the Civil Union Act in 2004) compla...

The Kiwi Party is a small Christian Party, one of the fragments of United Future. As expected, they're bigots, opposed to same-sex mar...

Last month conservative Christian lobby group Family First launched an "issues survey", asking the public such heartwarming ques...

According to a report in the Herald , the Exclusive Brethren have set up their own KiwiSaver scheme . That's not particularly interesti...

Are you a woman facing a dangerous pregnancy which could result in your death? According to the Catholic Church, you should just die : The...

Exodus. The changing map of the Middle East

The Herald this morning has a piece on the Exclusive Brethren's network of private schools , and the oppressive demands it makes of its...

Saudi Arabia has the death penalty. That's barbaric enough, but this week they're really plumbing the depths: they're going to ...

An explosion in the sky – and Beirut's worst fears came true The never-ending exodus of Christians from the Middle East

Over on Public Address System , a couple of loons are valiantly trying to excuse and minimise the murder of abortion doctor Dr George Tiller...