Polly Toynbee
Honorary Associate: Polly Toynbee
Polly Toynbee is a journalist and writer and has been a columnist for The Guardian newspaper since 1998. She has won the Political Journalist of the Year Award 2003 and is one of the most ardent supporters of the secular cause.
“When absolute God-given righteousness beckons, blood flows and women are in chains.”
“Most insulting is the idea that morality comes only from the rulebook of an external God: the Godless are without moral compass. Yet morality is plainly inborn in every child as soon it cries, "Unfair!" It is this presumptuous arrogance that underpins religion's claim to a monopoly on ethics.”
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Guardian, 21 August 2008
Yorkshire Post, 21 August 2008
Telegraph, 21 August 2008
The fact that this case was won while another case – that of 16- year old Lydia Playfoot and her claim in 2007 to want to wear a “chastity ring” in school – was thrown out of court seems in itself to be discriminatory.
Government transitional safeguards to protect the jobs and promotion prospects of head teachers and teachers already in post in Voluntary Controlled faith schools breach natural justice and are discriminatory, says the National Secular Society.