Sentences with phrase «humanist groups»

We want a government that will recognise the contribution made by secular and humanist groups within the voluntary and community sector.

Members of local humanist groups attended talks given to parents in Milton Keynes, Wakefield and Bournemouth, and more recently, members of Feminist Action Cambridge (FAC) were able to attend a talk given to secondary pupils in a school.

Michael Newdow, joined in his complaint by 11 atheist and humanist groups, filed similar, unsuccessful suits in 2001 and 2005, when President Bush was sworn in.

With the exception of some secular humanist groups, atheists don't have or attend anything remotely resembling churches.

Foundation Beyond Belief: The humanist group, also recommended by Montano, is evaluating how best to use the funds it collects.

But Ronald Lindsay of the Center for Inquiry, a Humanist group, called it «striking and sad» that «five of the six Christian justices on the Supreme Court formed the majority.»

«Given his distinguished service in the All - Party Parliamentary Humanist Group, his tireless work on behalf of those with disabilities, and his heroic support of Syrian child refugees, I can think of no better recipient of this prize in 2016 than Lord Dubs,» said Andrew Copson, BHA Chief Executive.

A number of peers belonging to the All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group (APPHG) gave a robust defence of the rights of those who do not hold to any religious beliefs during a debate in the House of Lords last night.

, particularly members of the All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group (APPHG), on legislation related to faith schools and education in Parliament, and organising debates in the House of Commons and House of Lords on relevant issues.

The All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group (APPHG) is hosting the launch of the Humanist Philosophers» important new publication.

Humanist political groups: Conservative Humanist Association; Green Humanist Group — please contact us if you have details of this group; Labour Party Humanist Group; Humanist and Secularist Liberal Democrats

He was an honorary associate of the National Secular Society, a distinguished supporter of the British Humanist Association and a vice-chairman of the all - party parliamentary humanist group.

Member of the All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group Nia Griffith MP offered a detailed contribution on why the Church of England is not the established Church of the United Kingdom.

He is also a member of the All - Party Parliamentary Humanist Group.

In September 2017, Blunt was elected chair of the All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group, the cross-party group which represents humanists in Parliament.

The debate was initiated by Baroness Massey of Darwen, Vice Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group, and saw her and many other Lords argue in favour of strengthening the teaching of PSHE in schools.

Members of the All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group complain to us about this issue more than any other.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) asked members of the All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group (APPHG) to vote in support of the plans.

All political parties work in different ways but if you are or want to be active in yours, one way of starting is to join your party's humanist group — we now have affiliated groups in the Labour Party, the Conservative Party, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party.

Working with parliamentarians to repeatedly raise the matter in Parliament, for example through the All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group and with the Labour and Liberal Democrat front - benches.

Read the BHA's draft response, final response and response to the SEF survey, as well as our briefing for MPs and peers who are in the All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group (APPHG) or otherwise interested in PSHE.

Not exact matches

I'm skeptical of both groups, especially when they are such a questionable example of what Jesus teaches / what the Humanists proclaim they value.

I truly am amused that the ones in the discussions that those who would characterize themselves as enlightened and tolerant humanists are the least tolerant of the group when it comes to ideas that are not in concert with theirs.

For that they would be variously represented by ethical groups to which they might be members, such as humanist or Unitarian organizations.

Atheists, Muslims, Christians, Humanists — and indeed every human group can all too easily do that.

Humanists and other secular groups, many of whom are religious, are fighting back against this assault on our educational and political system.

In 1995, roughly three dozen groups representing numerous faiths as well as a secular humanist organization designed a joint statement on religious liberties, showing support for what could be done legally in the schools, and disputing the claim that schools were «religion - free zones.»

In his first year, according to tax documents, the nonprofit disbursed $ 700,000 to groups like the Secular Coalition for America, the American Humanist Association and Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

The Bible and the Quran contain «horrific material, and to say you get your morality from there» is a problem, the head of the American Humanist Association said Tuesday as the group launches what it calls the largest, most extensive advertising campaign ever by a godless organization.

In view of all this the charge must be made against the radical group of religious leaders, whom we call Humanists, that they have failed to do justice to the fundamental feature in the phenomenon of religion.

There are many atheistic / humanist / secular groups who do good and civil service.

Founded in 2000, the Secular Student Alliance represents «atheists, agnostics, humanists, freethinkers, skeptics, naturalists, brights, Pastafarians, and many others,» according the the group's web site.

The problem is that secular humanists have their own «communitarianism» - a counter-accommodation, involving different groups, with different stories, sharing a different common ground - and these two communitarianisms are utterly at odds.

Other Peers expressing their support included Lord Harrison and Baroness Meacher, who highlighted how humanist marriage would merely extend the existing legal provisions awarded to Jewish and Quaker weddings to non-religious groups like the British Humanist Association, and Lord Garel - Jones who reiterated «that there is now overwhelming evidence that humanist marriages fulfil the Government's new families test and that they support strong and stable marriageshumanist marriage would merely extend the existing legal provisions awarded to Jewish and Quaker weddings to non-religious groups like the British Humanist Association, and Lord Garel - Jones who reiterated «that there is now overwhelming evidence that humanist marriages fulfil the Government's new families test and that they support strong and stable marriagesHumanist Association, and Lord Garel - Jones who reiterated «that there is now overwhelming evidence that humanist marriages fulfil the Government's new families test and that they support strong and stable marriageshumanist marriages fulfil the Government's new families test and that they support strong and stable marriages.»

«A largely fallacious narrative has been constructed around the notion that Christian and religious groups are under threat and being persecuted,» said Pavan Dhaliwal, British Humanist Association head of public affairs.

These statements come from a Minister who in the past has attacked secularism as «intolerant and illiberal», has said that religious people contribute more to society than the non-religious, has championed religious groups as being at the heart of the «Big Society», and even tried to amend the Equality Bill in a way which would leave humanists unprotected against discrimination and unequal treatment in the provision of, and access to, public services, employment, education, funding, and elsewhere.

She has also said that religious people contribute more to society than the non religious, has championed religious groups as being at the heart of the «Big Society», and even tried to amend the Equality Bill in a way which would leave humanists unprotected against discrimination and unequal treatment in the provision of, and access to, public services, employment, education, funding, and elsewhere.

In a major ruling, the British Humanist Association (BHA) has won its case against the Department for Education (DfE) over its refusal to publish a list of all groups proposing to establish Free Schools.

Read St James's consultation: http://www.stjames.tgacademy.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/finalconsultation.pdf Read the BHA's correspondence with the Academy and Diocese: http://humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/BHA-correspondence-with-Tudor-Grange-Academy-Solihull.pdf Read Tudor Grange's affiliation agreement with the Diocese of Birmingham: http://www.tudor-grange.solihull.sch.uk/images/docs/draftjul11.doc Read the relevant section of the Equality Act 2010: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/85 Visit the local campaign's Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/150736215077978/ View the petition against the plans: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/tudor-grange-admissions-policy Read more about the BHA's campaigns work on «faith» schools: http://humanism.org.uk/campaigns/schools-and-education/faith-schools/ Read the BHA's table of types of school with a religious character: http://www.humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/schools-with-a-religious-character.pdf The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) has expressed concern that religious and pseudoscientific groups will take advantage of this change in ways that lead to a biasing of the curriculum.

Ahead of its second reading in the Lords, Humanists UK published research that revealed the extent of the religious lobby on the Bill, and the scaremongering and misinformation being given out by religious groups about the issues.

, and pretty much said that having the secularist group Labour Humanists within the Party alienated people and was divisive.

The British Humanist Association (BHA), whose Campaigns Manager is a member of the advisory group of the Sex Education Forum and has long campaigned for statutory SRE in schools, has welcomed the reports, while stressing the need for the subject to be comprehensive and inclusive.

He is a senior lecturer in philosophy at Heythrop College, University of London, Provost of Centre for Inquiry UK and a member of the Humanist Philosophers Group.

On Tuesday, the British Humanist Association (BHA) made its final written submission in an ongoing Information Tribunal case over whether the Government must publish a list of all groups which have proposed to set up Free Schools — including their name, location and religion.

The lineup of groups opposing a constitutional convention includes: environmental groups, gay rights organizations, New York City cops, Western New York auto industry workers, the state chapter of the National Rifle Association, every imaginable public and private - sector union, political leaders on the left and right and even a group called «Humanists of Long Island.»

The British Humanist Association works independently and with others, including progressive religious groups, to campaign for measures to prevent religious schools and organisations providing services to discriminate in ways which would be unlawful for other organisations.

Humanists UK itself is not party political but we work with affiliated groups in a number of parties — the Labour Party, the Conservative Party, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party.

The Campaign launched in June 2013, and is also already being supported by the Accord Coalition, the British Humanist Association, Professor Ted Cantle and the iCoCo Foundation, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, the Campaign for State Education, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, the Christian think tank Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Green Party, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Liberal Youth, the Local Schools Network, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches and a number of local campaign groups.

Humanists UK is on the steering group for the Campaign.