The troubled city of Detroit unveiled a new bronze sculpture of the likeness of Baphomet, demonic goat and idol of worshippers of Satan, in a ceremony in the city on Saturday.

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A low-force tornado shocked beachgoers in Florida yesterday when it pulled an inflatable bouncy castle into the air - with children still inside.

Tributes have been pouring in for RTÉ sports broadcaster Bill O’ Herlihy who passed away today at the age of 76; Averil Power has resigned from Fianna Fáil and the Westboro Baptist Church can’t work out the Irish tricolour. Just some of the latest and most read stories on irishexaminer.com.

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Yes Equality campaigners have set their targets on ending the State-allowed ban on gay teachers in certain religious-run schools and beefing up transgender rights on the back of the success of the same-sex marriage referendum.

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A new billboard with the message "God loves gays" has appeared in the town of Topeka, Kansas which is the home of the Westboro Baptist Church.

The Rev Fred Phelps Sr, the fiery founder of a small Kansas church who led outrageous and hate-filled protests that blamed almost everything, including the deaths of AIDS victims and US soldiers, on America’s tolerance for gay people, has died.

A US man’s decision to lash out with a billboard advert saying his ex-girlfriend had an abortion against his wishes has sparked a legal debate over free speech and privacy rights

The US Supreme Court has ruled that an anti-gay church has the right to picket military funerals as part of the US constitution's guarantee of freedom of speech.

The US congresswoman shot in the Tucson massacre was breathing on her own tonight after being taken off a ventilator.

THE grieving father of a dead US soldier has won nearly $11 million (€7m) damages from a fundamentalist church that pickets military funerals as a campaign against homosexuality.

The grieving father of a dead US soldier has won nearly $11m (€7.6m) damages from a fundamentalist church that pickets military funerals as a campaign against homosexuality.

A RADICAL American Baptist family has claimed God sent the gunman to kill the 32 students and teachers at Virginia Tech — and has said it will preach at the victims’ funerals.

The governor of Kansas has signed a law today barring protesters from funerals in an attempt to curtail a fundamentalist church that pickets military funerals, claiming the deaths are God’s punishment for homosexuality.

PENNSYLVANIA Governor Ed Rendell yesterday offered Amish elders state police protection from an extremist church group that plans to demonstrate at the funerals of five girls fatally shot in an attack on their one-room schoolhouse.

Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell today said he will ask Amish elders if they want state police protection from a Kansas church group that plans to demonstrate at funerals of five girls fatally shot in an attack on their one-room schoolhouse.

Five people face criminal charges after a weekend confrontation with members of a Kansas church group that pickets military funerals because it believes US casualties in Iraq are a sign of God’s punishment for America’s tolerance of homosexuality, authorities said today.