A YOUNG US soldier who declared his atheism while on active duty in Iraq last year – and, as a result, was harassed and reviled – has filed a law suit alleging that his constitutional rights had been violated. The suit names Defence Secretary Robert Gates.
Since bringing the suit, Specialist Jeremy Hall has been called [...]
WHY would any self-respecting young atheist want to join an organisation originally launched by a devious, authoritarian imperialist, and racist to boot?
Furthermore, Lord Baden-Powell detested atheists, intellectuals, and socialists, and suggested a bonding of the Boys Scouts with the Hitler Youth Movement.
We ask the question because the Boy Scouts were in the news again [...]
A registrar in London is taking her employers to a tribunal because her religion gets in the way of her carrying out her duties.
Lillian Ladele won’t officiate at civil-partnership ceremonies in Islington, and now she’s in conflict with the council, for which she’s worked for more than ten years. She’s taking her case to an [...]
The president of English PEN (the UK arm of the worldwide writers’ organisation) Â says the law of blasphemous libel is not only obsolete but contravenes our rights to freedom of expression under the European Convention on Human Rights.
Lisa Appignanesi (pictured below), writing in the Guardian, quotes the Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie, who said, “If [...]
If you’re doing New Year resolutions, put human rights before losing weight or reducing your credit-card bill. That’s the message of the executive director of the National Secular Society, Keith Porteous Wood.
“[W]e would urge you all to make one about something much more important to future generations,” he says. “To vow to support Human Rights. [...]
A cross-party group of MPs want ensure that homophobic Christians can continue to express their views on gay people.
They’ve tabled an amendment to that effect, effectively seeking to amend the government’s proposal to make a criminal offence of incitement to hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation. Among them, as we might expect, are a [...]
AMNESTY is iconic. It’s venerated. It’s one of those organisations you just don’t knock. It would be like kicking Lassie or throttling a Teletubby.
But the evil of the Catholic Church knows no bounds. Now, according to The Times (inter alia), hundreds of thousands of schoolkids whose parents happen to subscribe to that barmy doctrine have been told [...]
