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Posted: Tue, 11 Jan 2022
NSS urges Scotland to ensure food banks are inclusive
The National Secular Society has advised the Scottish government to address discrimination in religious charities tackling poverty.
Posted: Thu, 09 Dec 2021
NSS: Cut public funding from college that bans LGBT relationships
The National Secular Society has reported a theological college which discriminates against LGBT+ students to the higher education regulator....
Posted: Tue, 28 Sep 2021
End religious discrimination in education, NSS urges equality commission
The NSS has called for an end to religious discrimination in schools to enhance fairness for children and young people.
Posted: Fri, 24 Sep 2021
NSS welcomes ruling on Christian foster agency case
The National Secular Society has welcomed a judgment upholding a ruling that a Christian fostering agency cannot reject same-sex couples....
Posted: Wed, 21 Apr 2021
Bill seeks to end religious discrimination against teachers in NI
The NSS will support a bill to end a legal exemption allowing religious discrimination against teachers in Northern Ireland.
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Evangelical activists' insistence that equality amounts to discrimination is a narcissistic approach to human rights, argues Stephen Evans.
Christian lobby groups’ doublespeak is a distortion of human rights
Posted: Fri, 17 Dec 2021
Research suggests the Church of England downplays the extent of religious discrimination in admissions to the schools it runs. Its embarrassment shows the need to end this practice, says Alastair Lichten....
Is the C of E ashamed of discrimination in school admissions?
Posted: Fri, 28 May 2021
The film Women Leaving Islam shows the risks facing those who stand up for the fundamental right to leave religion and the ongoing neglect of minorities within minorities in public life, says Helen Nicholls....
Women Leaving Islam: the rights of those who leave religion must be protected
Posted: Wed, 14 Apr 2021
As families in England prepare to find out which primary schools their children will attend, Alastair Lichten says ending faith-based discrimination would make the admissions system fairer and simpler....
We must find the political will to end discriminatory school admissions
Posted: Mon, 12 Apr 2021
Opponents often erect a straw man of secularism to justify demands for religious privilege. But freedom of religion must come with freedom from religion, says Stephen Evans.
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All I want for Christmas is freedom of and from religion
Posted: Fri, 18 Dec 2020