THE American Humanist Association (AHA) has stepped forward with an offered to organise and fund a prom for the Itawamba County Agricultural High School in Mississippi.
The Itawamba County School District made headlines earlier this week by cancelling their prom rather than allowing a lesbian student, Constance McMillen, 18, to bring her girlfriend as her date.
Said [...]
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SECULARISTS have condemned the conviction of a “militant atheist” who left “offensive” anti-religious images in Liverpool Airport’s prayer room.
According to the BBC, the National Secular Society called for the “draconian” law used against philosophy tutor Harry Taylor to be changed.
Taylor, 59, of Griffen Street, Salford, admitted at Liverpool Crown Court religiously aggravated intentional harassment, alarm [...]
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LEFT-WING radical Michael Foot, leader of the Labour Party between 1980 and 1983, died in at his home in London earlier today at the age of 96.
A staunch republican (though actually well-liked by the Royal Family on a personal level) and proponent of an elected upper house, Foot had rejected honours from the Queen and [...]
WHITE House officials yesterday met with leaders of the atheist community to discuss their concerns about privileges given to religious groups by the government.
According to the Secular Coalition of America, the meeting was:
The first time in history that a presidential administration has met for a policy briefing with the American non-theist community.
The issues addressed, [...]
Welcome to the final part of PETER BRIETBART’S interview with Professor A C GRAYLING. Here we ask what Eutopia might look like, what lies in store for the future of humanity, where the best philosophy is to be found and whether the right to die should be a legal right.
PB: In your view, and, [...]
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WELCOME to the second part of our interview with PROFESSOR A C GRAYLING. Here, PETER BRIETBART asks Grayling how he’d combat extremism if he were the Prime Minister of the UK; how we can have morality in a godless world; whether circumcision is ever morally acceptable, and why religions are so common and varied.
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
