The National Secular Society is the leading campaigning organisation defending our society from the demands of those who seek religious privilege. We campaign for a society in which everyone is free to practise their faith, change it, or not have one at all. Our beliefs or lack of them should neither be an advantage nor a disadvantage.
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The Attorney General, Baroness Scotland, has told Catholic magazine The Tablet that she will attempt to help the churches introduce exemptions in the Equality Bill that would permit religious organisations to discriminate in employment against those who don’t share their faith.
The General Teaching Council has watered down a proposed new code of conduct after pressure from Christian activists who objected to gay children being protected from bullying and the need to support and approve of children from unmarried mothers.
Doctors have voted down a Christian motion at the BMA conference this week that would have given carte blanche for religious medical practitioners to “share their faith” without restraint. The motion had called for doctors not to be suspended for offering to pray for patients.
National Secular Society Executive Director Keith Porteous Wood has been busy in Europe this week with a working lunch with the President of the European Commission in Brussels and a meeting at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg about what role religion should play in “the intercultural dialogue”.
The thought of 24 children spending less than a week in a secular summer camp has set certain sections of the media into a panic.
A long-serving Church of England bishop has predicted that the CofE will cease to exist within a generation.
A local humanist group is calling for Devon County Council to scrap funding for “faith” consultations, branding the present system as discriminatory and a waste of public resources.
A fascinating new poll conducted by the Irish radio station Newstalk has found that attitudes to Catholicism have shifted significantly since the publication of the Ryan report into child abuse in Catholic-run institutions.
New research by the Pew Forum in the USA looked at the speed and breadth of the divergence of opinion between the older and younger generations of Americans.
Sharia courts should not be recognised under Britain’s 1996 Arbitration Act, according to a new report from independent think-tank Civitas.
