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National Secular Society News

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Sex Education and Faith Schools

Posted on July 22, 2010
The NSS has responded to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) consultation about guidance for teaching personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE) in schools.

Churches want head teachers who are first and foremost evangelists

Posted on July 22, 2010
Panicking that there simply aren't enough religiously motivated head teachers around to staff their schools, the Church of England and the Catholic Church have got together with the National College to formulate a new approach.

Which is the best model for religious education?

Posted on July 22, 2010
Terry sanderson on the perennial problem of which kind of secularism is best to aim for in British society and education system.

Irish senator calls for a secular constitution at atheist group?s AGM

Posted on July 22, 2010
An Irish Senator has called for the country to adopt a secular constitution. Labour Party Senator Ivana Bacik told the AGM of Atheist Ireland last weekend that there was now an appetite for constitutional reform in Ireland now that it is no longer dominated by Catholicism.

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Communities Secretary warns again that religion is going to be favoured by this Government

Posted on July 22, 2010
Our comedy Communities Secretary, Wilfred – er, that is to say, Eric Pickles has been at it again, telling Christians that they are going to have a big stake in Britain, whether Britain wants them to or not.

Civitas booklet says blasphemy has returned by the back door

Posted on July 22, 2010
The arguments in a new pamphlet from the Civitas think tank will be familiar to supporters of the NSS. We've been making them for the past ten years.

Vatican under pressure over child abuse report

Posted on July 15, 2010
The Chair of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNHRC) says the Vatican is ignoring her calls to produce a report on child protection that is 13 years overdue.

�80,000 of taxpayers? money down the drain as Church scales back papal visit

Posted on July 15, 2010
As Warwickshire police reveal that they have wasted ?80,000 in planning for an aborted papal event at Coventry airport, the National Secular Society has put in Freedom of Information Requests to four police authorities.

Catholic diocese seeks to avoid paying compensation to abuse victims

Posted on July 15, 2010
A Catholic diocese has launched an appeal to pay for damages for sexual and physical abuse awarded to 150 former pupils.

Christian foster carer wins case against council who struck her off because Muslim girl in her care changed religion

Posted on July 15, 2010
Gateshead Council has been ordered to quash a decision to de-register a foster carer after a 16 year old 'Muslim girl' in her charge decided that she wanted to be baptised a Christian.

Oxford cuts free transport to ?faith schools?

Posted on July 15, 2010
From 2011, Oxfordshire County Council is to scrap concessionary transport subsidies to families who live in other local authorities and generous extra statutory provision for children who attend 'faith schools', saving an estimated ?697,000 by 2017.

Protest the Pope film season launched ? buy tickets now

Posted on July 15, 2010
As part of the Protest the Pope campaign, the National Secular Society is presenting a short season of films which explore issues that the Catholic Church and the Government would prefer were kept under wraps during the papal visit.

Council Prayers Fighting fund ? thanks, but much more needed, please

Posted on July 15, 2010
Our legal challenge to prayers at council meetings is now being prepared for submission to the High Court, and your Executive Director has spent much of the last fortnight closeted with lawyers.

New Alpha poster will tempt the felt-tip pen brigade again

Posted on July 15, 2010
After last year's poster from the Alpha Course that asked 'Does God Exist' and gave the tick box options of 'Yes', 'No' and 'Probably', this year's asks: 'The Meaning of Life is.........'

Australian Prime Minister under fire for being an atheist

Posted on July 15, 2010
Religious extremists in Australia have launched an attack on their new Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, because she is an avowed atheist and not married to the man she is living with.

Coming out as atheist: Emily Mortimer

Posted on July 15, 2010
The actress Emily Mortimer (daughter of John Mortimer) said in an interview with the Guardian: "It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life..."

Legal firm steps in to defend Bideford against NSS prayer challenge

Posted on July 08, 2010
The Town Council in Bideford last night voted to accept an offer from a Manchester law firm to defend the saying of prayers at meetings. The decision follows a challenge from the National Secular Society, which is seeking a judicial review to test the legality of including prayers as part of council meetings.

Patten?s smokescreen seeks to hide real costs of Pope?s visit

Posted on July 08, 2010
The Government announced on Monday that the cost of the Pope's visit to the UK in September will be 50% more than originally thought rising from ?8 million to ?12 million. But the National Secular Society dismissed this figure as just the tip of an enormous iceberg.

Mr Pickles wants us all to go back to church

Posted on July 08, 2010
Eric Pickles has all traits of the classic populist politico, says Terry Sanderson. He is plain-speaking, knows what he likes and, more importantly, he purports to know what 'the people' like. He is also ill-informed, ignorant and seemingly inclined to believe anything he's told by the Daily Mail.

Collective worship and the new academy system

Posted on July 08, 2010
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has asked what bad laws should be repealed and has set up a website for the public to make suggestions. Last week, the proposal that collective worship (or forced worship as we prefer to call it) in schools should be abolished was the most popular.

Labour leadership candidates at Christian Socialist hustings

Posted on July 08, 2010
The candidates for the leadership of the Labour Party, Diane Abbott, Ed Balls, David Miliband, Ed Miliband and Andy Burnham, attended hustings organised by the Christian Socialist Movement at Methodist Central Hall this week. About 350 people attended.

Spiralling cost of papal visit ? the true cost could be �100 million

Posted on July 04, 2010
The National Secular Society has dismissed Government claims that the cost to the taxpayer of the papal visit will be ?12 million, and says that the cost of security could increase that figure by a factor of ten.

Cheriegate ? the full story

Posted on June 24, 2010
The full account of what followed after Cherie Booth QC made her now-infamous remark in court to Shamso Miah that he was being given a suspended sentence because he was 'a religious man'

Pope visit: Lord Patten parrots the party line on costs and benefits

Posted on June 24, 2010
Lord Patten, who is now grandly described as the 'Prime Minister's Personal Representative for the papal visit' has said that the cost of the Ratzinger's trip to the UK in September has yet to be established

You?ll be going to church quite soon ? whether you want to or not

Posted on June 24, 2010
Will the Government's ambition to 'reduce the state' mean a rapid return to the Victorian values of charity and church?

Forced to swear on the Bible

Posted on June 24, 2010
An English resident who is working in Copenhagen was recently told at the British Embassy there that he could not affirm when taking a legal oath there, but had to swear on the Bible.

Channel 4?s new religious strand will allow non-believers a voice

Posted on June 24, 2010
Channel 4 is to launch a new series of short talks, to follow its 7pm news each evening that will 'reflect on religious and ethical issues or aspects of the speaker's spiritual lives.' Unlike the Radio 4 Thought for the Day slot, this new programme will be open to non-religious and sceptical voices.

Slow change in European attitudes in the science vs religion debate

Posted on June 24, 2010
Eurobarometer, the polling organisation that assesses opinion for the European Commission, recently looked into attitudes towards scientific innovation throughout the EU. The fascinating poll threw up huge differences between the countries surveyed.

Christians hope to ?remould? the Labour Party

Posted on June 24, 2010
All five of Labour's leadership hopefuls — Diane Abbott, Ed Balls, Andy Burnham, David Milliband and Ed Milliband — will attend hustings organised by the Christian Socialist Movement at Westminster Central Hall on Monday 5th July (all places taken).

MEPs back proposals to introduce mandatory labelling of halal and kosher meat

Posted on June 17, 2010
The European Parliament has approved proposals to introduce mandatory labelling of ritually slaughtered meat.

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