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...police when other efforts to eject them failed. In an attempt to make debate more seemly, Speakers of the past have banned "grossly insulting language" and the use of such words as villain, hypocrite, murderer, insulting dog, swine, Pecksniffian cant, cheat, stoolpigeon and bastard. In the 1880s, one Charles Bradlaugh was refused his seat because he was an avowed atheist. When Bradlaugh tried to take it anyway, he battled ten Bobbies to a draw until he fainted from his exertions...
...proposed that the Committee of Privileges investigate the question of whether Benn's parliamentary privilege had been violated. As a last resort, Benn could still defy the 1678 rule barring peers from Commons by standing for and winning re-election to the House -the device by which Charles Bradlaugh in the late 19th century overturned the rule barring atheists from Commons...
...original Gospel" according to Graves and Podro is a far cry from the canonical books of the New Testament. The canonical books, "judged by Greek literary standards" say Graves & Podro ". . . are poor; by historical standards, unreliable; and their doctrine is confused and contradictory. The late-Victorian atheist (was it Bradlaugh?) may be excused for remarking that they read as though 'concocted by illiterate, half-starved visionaries in some dark corner of a Graeco-Syrian slum...
...left him, went to London, heard Atheist Charles Bradlaugh preach, became his right-hand woman. Fourteen years she wrote and harangued for Free Thought, finally saw Bradlaugh seated in Parliament. Once they stood trial together for publishing a birth-control pamphlet. Convicted, they appealed and this time won; sold 185,000 copies of the book in three years...
...following the trial and acquittal of one Annie Besant and one Charles Bradlaugh for distributing birth control literature, a Neo-Malthusian League was formed in London. A quarter of a century later, the first Neo-Malthusian and Birth Control Conference was held in Paris, repeated at Liege, in 1901; The Hague, 1910; Dresden, 1911; London...