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News | Wed, 27 Nov 2013
The National Secular Society has joined together with religious groups and civil liberties campaigners to launch a new campaign to challenge Government proposals to outlaw "annoying" behaviour. |
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News | Tue, 26 Nov 2013
A report just published by vice-chancellors' group Universities UK, has advised that segregation by gender in talks from external speakers is fine. |
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News | Wed, 27 Nov 2013
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by the owners of a guest house after they had been found guilty of discrimination against a gay couple who wanted to stay in a double room. |
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News | Thu, 28 Nov 2013
The board of governors of a community school in Sheffield has voted to strengthen its existing policy on religious visitors following concerns about the agenda of external visitors to the school. |
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News | Fri, 29 Nov 2013
A third of community schools and over a third of academies without a religious character are failing to meet their legal or contractual agreements to provide religious education. |
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News | Sat, 23 Nov 2013
A head teacher has been forced to apologise to parents after threatening to punish children for racism if they missed a religious awareness workshop. |
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News | Tue, 26 Nov 2013
Patriarch Kirill, leader of the Russian Orthodox Church has said that there is no question of the church and state uniting in Russia. |
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Quotes of the Week
"One of the great mysteries of life is why any woman would want to be involved in a religion that is underpinned by sharia law, which is so anti-female." (Chas Barter, The Australian) "If I see secularism as anything it's as a pathway to sanity." (AL Kennedy, novelist, Guardian) "Secularism is having the courage to question everything in such a way that no one belief system — religious or otherwise — is permitted to dominate. Secularism is tolerant, critical and open-minded. Above all, secularism means keeping open the possibility that there may not be satisfactory answers to difficult questions, be they scientific, political or existential, that humanity cannot help but ask." (Nina Power, lecturer, Guardian) "Secularism to me means the separation of state and religion. I believe in that separation almost as strongly as I believe in God. We must all live under the same laws and buy into codified human rights. Those take precedence over religious obligations." (Yasmin Alibhai Brown, writer, Guardian)
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