ORGANISERS of an event aimed at combating homophobia at the St Joseph Catholic Secondary School in Toronto incurred the wrath of school board officials when it became known that they intended displaying rainbows at their information booth. A “ridiculous” ban was then slapped on the group by the Dufferin-Peel Catholic School Board, according to Leanne [...]
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WITH Census Day looming in England and Wales Â- forms must be filled in on or immediately after March 27 – the British Humanist Society has issued a fresh appeal, asking people to tick the “No Religion” box. Andrew Copson, BHA Chief Executive, said: Most people in the UK now say they’re not religious. In [...]
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A NEW church schools award scheme, which turns a blind eye to discriminatory and admissions policies regarding pupils and staff, has been slammed by the chair of the Accord Coalition, Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain. He said: Some faith schools do not discriminate on religious grounds in their employment and admissions policy, and instead see their [...]
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DR Rumy Hasan is a quietly-spoken academic with a winsome smile who is quite unlikely to win many friends among mainly left-leaning British liberals who have, over the last 30 years or so, insisted on accusing critics of hard-line Islamic ideology as “Islamophobic” and – by extension – “racist”. Hasan, a senior lecturer at the [...]
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NEWS has just come to light that a teacher at a Catholic school in Fort Dodge, Iowa, has been fired after saying in a Facebook survey she did not believe in God. Administrators of St Edmond Catholic School fired Abby Nurre, 27, late last year, just months after she was hired as an eighth-grade math [...]
WHATEVER one might think of our new Lib-Con Government, there’s very good cause to lament the absence in the new coalition of Dr Evan Harris, who lost his Oxford West & Abingdon seat by fewer than 200 votes. Harris had been the target of campaigns by at least two priests, one of whom was behind [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
