Coalition calls on Lords to reject religious exemptions in Equality Bill
A coalition of liberal religious and social justice groups is calling on the House of Lords to reject religious opt-outs from the Equality Bill. The bill is scheduled for its second reading in the...
View ArticleValentine’s Day protest over Pope’s UK visit
A protest against the Pope’s visit to the UK is to take place in central London this Sunday. It is being planned by the Central London Humanist Group in partnership with the British Humanist...
View ArticleProtestors will tell Pope to ‘snog off’
A ‘kiss-in’ will be held as part of Sunday’s Valentine’s Day protest against the Pope’s visit to the UK. Demonstrators plan to march from London’s Westminster Cathedral to the Italian embassy in...
View ArticleGovernment accused of U-turn over faith schools’ teaching on homosexuality
The government has been accused of performing a U-turn over an amendment allowing faith schools to teach about homosexuality in line with their “religious character”. Last week, schools secretary Ed...
View ArticleQueen discusses Pope’s controversial visit in coalition speech
In her speech today, the Queen outlined the Pope’s planned religious activities for his state visit in September. His will be the first ever Papal Visit in the UK, that of Pope John Paul II in 1982...
View ArticleLatest ‘Protest the Pope’ campaign held in London
A meeting was held in south London last night by the Protest the Pope campaign committee. During the meeting, reasons for protesting the pontiff’s visit next month were discussed. Issues outlined by...
View ArticleCatholic charity loses appeal over gay adoption
A tribunal has thrown out a Catholic charity’s bid to be exempted from equality laws which make it illegal to discriminate against gay couples who wish to adopt. Leeds-based Catholic Care have said...
View ArticleComment: Encouraging pupils to sign the Coalition for Marriage is shocking,...
Yesterday’s PinkNews.co.uk exclusive that the Catholic Church encouraged pupils in all its secondary schools to sign the Coalition for Marriage’s petition against gay couples being given the right to...
View ArticleRow over legality of Coalition for Marriage presentations in Catholic state...
A row has erupted over correspondence issued by the Catholic Education Service to nearly 400 Catholic schools in England and Wales which asked them to ‘draw the attention’ of pupils to the Coalition...
View ArticleCatholic group: Objections to anti-gay marriage petition in schools are...
A religious group unofficially representing the Catholic Church in the media has said questions over the legality of promoting the Coalition for Marriage anti-equality petition to schoolchildren are...
View ArticleFree equal marriage debate to take place in London tomorrow
In the final weeks of the government’s public consultation on how to implement marriage equality for gay and straight couples, a debate between humanists, Catholics, Jews and social commentators will...
View ArticleComment: Did C4M members help lay the groundwork for teaching same-sex...
The claim that the Coalition for Marriage will, arguably, be responsible for schools teaching pupils about same sex marriage, reads like one of those absurd claims along the lines of that gays marrying...
View ArticleCornwall: Catholic school fails to distance itself from anti-gay row
Senior teaching staff at a newly-opened Catholic school in Cornwall claim homophobic views expressed by the grandfather of a former student do not reflect those of the institution. St Michael’s...
View ArticleUK: Defeat for anti-gay Christians at European Court of Human Rights
Two Christians, who claim that they were fired because they wouldn’t work with gay couples, have lost their anti-discrimination case at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg. Lillian...
View ArticleChurch of England clergyman: ‘Lord Carey should get over his obsession with...
Members of the Church of England, other faith groups and secularists have quickly responded to deny claims by Lord Carey that David Cameron’s “aggressively secular” government was marginalising...
View ArticleHumanist weddings amendment withdrawn from equal marriage bill
An amendment for humanist weddings has been withdrawn from the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill after Baroness Stowell gave reassurances to supporters that the government would look again at the...
View ArticleUK Government: No schools should be reintroducing Section 28
The Department for Education (DfE) has confirmed to PinkNews.co.uk that it’s investigating claims that scores of schools have polices in place targeting the “promotion” of homosexuality. In a statement...
View ArticleBHA identifies 45 schools that continue to have Section 28-like policies
The British Humanist Association (BHA) says it has identified at least 45 schools that either replicate language banning the “promotion” of homosexuality in the classroom or are “unhelpfully vague on...
View ArticleBHA: UK Government must ‘urgently update’ sex education policies over Section...
The British Humanist Association (BHA) has cautiously welcomed the Department for Education’s decision to investigate claims that more than 40 schools have polices in place targeting the “promotion” of...
View ArticleWelsh Government launches probe over fears schools have reintroduced Section...
The Welsh Government is to investigate reports that two schools in Wales still have sex education policies which ban the promotion of homosexuality as a “matter of urgency.” Concerns have been raised...
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