GOOD sense has triumphed over biblical bullshit in Texas. On Friday, the State Board of Education voted unanimously to approve sound-science materials for public school biology courses. By a 14-0 vote, the board chose to approve supplemental materials from mainstream publishers, not creationist crap from Religious Right-backed suppliers of dodgy Bible-bases hypotheses. According to this [...]
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FOLLOWING our earlier post about the conviction of a young London Muslim for plastering anti-gay stickers in what has been dubbed the Islamic Republic of Tower Hamlets, we learn from this report that police – fearing accusations of racism – have ignored or downplayed outbreaks of hate crime in the borough, and suppressed evidence implicating [...]
NORTH LOUISIANA has been described as “the buckle on the Bible Belt” – and not without good reason, as high school student Damon Fowler at Bastrop High School has discovered to his cost. On the eve of his graduation, the atheist student contacted the school superintendent to let him know that he opposed the inclusion [...]
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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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DUTCH MEP Sophie in ‘t Veld was yesterday named the 2011 winner of prestigious Irwin Prize of Secularist of the Year. The National Secular Society (NSS), which organises the annual presentation, awarded her the prize at a ceremony in London for her work as chair of the European Parliamentary Platform for Secularism in Politics (EPPSP). [...]
BRITISH Education Secretary Michael Gove has openly urged Catholic schools to convert to Academies as a way of avoiding “unsympathetic meddling”by secularists. Critics of faith schools, argued Gove in an article for the Catholic Herald: Often misrepresent the Catholic school ethos as a mechanism of religious indoctrination and wrongly portray the admissions criteria used by [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
