The efficacy of abstinence

3 December 2007 · 1 Comment 

A big /hattip to Fall of Hate for alerting me to this gem from Evil Milk:

Abstinence: 99.9999% effective

B-E-A-utiful.

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HSS and an essay on sexual morality

2 December 2007 · Comments Off 

Cover image of the Autum/Winter edition of 'Humanitie' the magazine from the Humanist Society of Scotland

The latest edition — and, coincidentally, the first of the new-look Humanist Society of Scotland magazine, Humanitie — has an excellent essay on sexual morality written by student Eimear O’Casey, who jointly won a student essay competition run by the society with this essay.

Unfortunately I can’t find the essay online, but if you’re already a member you should have, or will soon have, received your magazine in the post. If you’re not, you can subscribe to the magazine (or join up and get it for free) from the HSS web site. It contains other good stuff too, including an exclusive essay by A C Grayling about his new book, The Choice of Hercules.

ION, the HSS also appears to be thinking about doing something more with Think Humanist, the rational alternative to the BBC’s ignorantly exclusive Thought For The Day, which would be excellent.

And, I can’t close without mentioning this wee nugget of an anecdote from the editorial on the recent HSS conference:

Maryam [Namazie — ex-muslim activist and a guest speaker at the conference] encouraged us to strive to remove barriers rather than build more, instancing the fact that when asked recently to support a “Humanist Academy” she had refused but would gladly support an “Academy for all” regardless of colour or creed.

Damned right, Maryam.

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BBC: Mormon cultist guilty

25 September 2007 · 3 Comments 

Warren Jeffs, head of the fundie mormons, has been found guilty of complicity in the rape of a 14-year-old girl forced to marry her cousin.

A court in Utah found Warren Jeffs, a self-proclaimed Mormon prophet, guilty of two counts of encouraging the young girl to have sex against her will.

The head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) could face life in prison.

This paragraph is particularly telling of a certain kind of theistic mindset:

After deliberating for 16 hours, the jury in St George found Mr Jeffs had orchestrated the marriage of the girl to her 19-year-old cousin and encouraged her to have sex by telling her she would go to hell if she did not.

More over at the BBC

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