The National Secular Society welcomes the decision of the Charity Commission to refuse the application by Catholic Care (Diocese of Leeds) to continue discriminating against homosexual prospective adopters.

A speech by Keith Porteous Wood to the Protest the Pope public meeting. Richmond, 12 August 2010

Terry Sanderson's address to Protest the Pope public meeting, 12 August 2010.

A hospital Trust’s proposal to scrap the provision of Gideon Bibles in bedside lockers as a precaution against superbugs is being supported by the National Secular Society.

Terry Sanderson speaks out in defence of secularism in the New Statesman

Chevalier De La Barre Commemoration (Libre Pensee)
NSS Speech (English version) at Abbeville, France, on 4 July 2010

MEPs have today approved proposals to introduce mandatory labelling of ritually slaughtered meat.

The National Secular Society has spoken out about the lack of transparency in the decision by the Office of Judicial Complaints to absolve Cherie Blair (Ms Booth QC) from any wrong-doing when she gave a suspended sentence rather than a prison sentence to a defendant reportedly on the basis that he was a “religious man”.

News of the spiralling cost of the Pope’s visit to Britain in September has alarmed secularists who are demanding that the Government does not use any more taxpayers’ money to rescue the event.

“We are not being told the truth about the real cost of this event,” said Terry Sanderson. “The taxpayer should not be put in the position of having to rescue the Church from its own profligacy. This event is not necessary, hospitals, schools and social services are.”

Note for editors: Earlier this year the National Secular Society delivered a 28,000 name petition to Downing Street calling on the Government not to fund the papal visit.

The Protest the Pope campaign is planning a series of protest events during the Pope’s visit www.protest-the-pope.org.uk/

In a development that almost defies belief, the Vatican has appointed Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor, the former leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, to head an abuse inquiry in Ireland.