Tags: LGBTQ rights
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University revokes sultan of Brunei’s degree after NSS request
Posted: Wed, 24 Apr 2019
The NSS has welcomed a university's revocation of a degree from the sultan of Brunei after his country introduced draconian Islamic laws. Read More »
NSS urges support for teachers amid anti-LGBT protests and threats
Posted: Wed, 10 Apr 2019
The National Secular Society has urged the government to reconsider a requirement on schools to take pupils' "religious background" into account when teaching about relationships amid an escalating campaign against LGBT-inclusive education.
The NSS has written... Read More »
Anti-LGBT psychologist investigated after NSS raises concerns
Posted: Mon, 01 Apr 2019
The NSS has asked two professional bodies to investigate whether an anti-LGBT psychologist's views are compatible with their standards. Read More »
NSS: government must support schools which promote LGBT equality
Posted: Tue, 05 Mar 2019
The NSS has urged the government to support a school in Birmingham which is under pressure to stop teaching lessons on LGBT equality. Read More »
NSS welcomes plan to ban LGBT ‘conversion therapy’
Posted: Tue, 03 Jul 2018
The National Secular Society has welcomed a government announcement that it will bring forward proposals to end the practice of LGBT 'conversion therapy' in the UK.
But the NSS criticised the government's failure to mention anti-LGBT sex education in faith... Read More »
Christian groups coordinating anti-rights campaigns across Europe
Posted: Fri, 04 May 2018
An effort by Christian groups to restrict LGBT+ and women's rights across Europe has already had some success, a report has revealed. Read More »
Children’s rights paramount as trans parent gets visitation appeal
Posted: Thu, 21 Dec 2017
A judge has ruled that a transgender parent can appeal to have contact with her children, despite a religious community's opposition. Read More »
Tribunal rejects ‘religious discrimination’ case against the NHS
Posted: Mon, 23 Oct 2017
A 'devout Christian' who was sacked as an NHS director after opposing same-sex adoption has lost his claim for religious discrimination. Read More »
Inclusion of trans pupils violates religious rights, claim parents
Posted: Thu, 14 Sep 2017
Two parents have withdrawn their son from a Church of England primary school after it allowed a student to wear a girl's uniform. Read More »
Same-sex marriages need not be recognised in NI, court rules
Posted: Fri, 18 Aug 2017
The High Court has ruled that same-sex marriages which are entered into in England do not need to be recognised in Northern Ireland. Read More »
NSS calls for ban on ‘gay conversion therapies’ after church starvation
Posted: Thu, 17 Aug 2017
The NSS has called on the government to consider banning so-called gay conversion 'therapies' after a Liverpool church encouraged LGBT+ people to starve themselves for long periods. Read More »
DUP vows to resist calls to legalise abortion and same-sex marriage
Posted: Fri, 11 Aug 2017
DUP leader Arlene Foster has said her party will retain Northern Ireland's restrictions on abortion and same-sex marriage, despite growing pressure for reform. Read More »
NSS criticises Archbishops over clerical hostility to LGBT+ rights
Posted: Thu, 03 Aug 2017
The National Secular Society's Executive Director, Keith Porteous Wood, has criticised Church of England leaders for their record on gay rights after they spoke out on the subject. Read More »
‘Moderate’ Indonesia launches anti-gay police taskforce after public caning of two men
Posted: Fri, 26 May 2017
Indonesia's police are to launch a new crackdown on gay people, following a brutal public caning and the mass arrest of 140 gay men at a party. Read More »
BBC Trust rules against presenter who asked Christian Concern campaigner if she was a bigot
Posted: Thu, 10 Mar 2016
Former BBC presenter Iain Lee has said he is "flabbergasted" after the BBC Trust ruled his interview with a Christian campaigner was a "serious breach" of editorial guidelines. Read More »
Supreme Court legalises same-sex marriage across USA
Posted: Fri, 26 Jun 2015
In an historic case the US Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 that same-sex couples have a legal right to marriage. Read More »
Tribunal to rule on Gay clergyman refused NHS chaplaincy job because he is in same-sex marriage
Posted: Tue, 16 Jun 2015
A Bishop stripped a Church of England clergyman of the licence needed to take a hospital chaplaincy job because he is in a same-sex marriage. Read More »
“Sodomite Suppression Act” proposed by US Christian lawyer
Posted: Thu, 26 Mar 2015
A California lawyer has proposed a "Sodomite Suppression Act" and warned of "God's just wrath" should the state of California not put homosexuals to death. Read More »
Homophobic preacher invited to address University of Westminster Islamic Society
Posted: Mon, 23 Feb 2015
Sheikh Haitham al-Haddad, who once said "godless homosexuals" engaged in a "criminal act", is to be hosted by the University of Westminster Islamic Society. Read More »
Head of Russian Orthodox Church says secularization in Europe has reached “apocalyptic dimensions,” calls for “Christian values”
Posted: Tue, 25 Nov 2014
Patriarch Kirill said Europe has abandoned its "Christian identity" and that the "process of secularization" has reached "apocalyptic dimensions". Read More »
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