The National Secular Society works for the separation of religion and state and equal respect for everyone's human rights so that no one is either advantaged or disadvantaged on account of their beliefs.
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Mon, 11 Sep 2017
NSS asks Lords committee on citizenship to promote secular principles
The NSS has called on Britain to celebrate equality and respect for secular democracy, the rule of law and human rights as a basis for civic engagement....
Mon, 04 Sep 2017
More than half of Brits now non-religious, study finds
The National Secular Society has called for "a serious debate about religion's place in our society" after a study found the proportion of non-religious...
Wed, 30 Aug 2017
NSS calls for clearer labelling on halal meat
The National Secular Society has called for clearer labelling on meat slaughtered by religious methods after new quality standards were proposed for halal...
Fri, 18 Aug 2017
Joint faith school campus brings segregation under one roof
A new £17m campus which houses Catholic and Jewish faith schools together has opened in East Renfrewshire.
Fri, 18 Aug 2017
Same-sex marriages need not be recognised in NI, court rules
The High Court has ruled that same-sex marriages which are entered into in England do not need to be recognised in Northern Ireland.
Opinion
As new data suggests non-belief is at a record high, Chris Sloggett says secularists should be more assertive in making the case for freedom of and from religion.
Britain should embrace secularism as it loses its religion
Fri, 08 Sep 2017
Cormac Murphy O'Connor, the former Archbishop of Westminster, died on 1 September. NSS executive director Keith Porteous Wood seeks to set the historical record straight with this alternative obituary.
Cardinal Murphy O'Connor's cover-up of child abusers must be a lesson to the Catholic Church
Fri, 08 Sep 2017
As a theme park lifts its ban on Sikh ceremonial swords, NSS campaigns director Stephen Evans questions the wisdom behind religious exemptions from generally applicable rules.
Beware the drip drip of religious exemptions
Sat, 02 Sep 2017
NSS executive director Keith Porteous Wood detects a long-overdue and decisive turn towards secularism in publicly funded healthcare in Ireland, an area in which the Catholic Church has until now been predominant.
Ireland’s hospitals: some welcome secularisation
Fri, 01 Sep 2017
The Australian abuse commission is right not to exempt the confessional from reporting obligations, and its rigour should provide a model to reverse the backsliding already all too clear in the UK, argues Keith Porteous Wood....
The confessional shouldn’t shield child abuse from reporting
Wed, 16 Aug 2017