Opinion Out Loud brings you a selection of the National Secular Society’s opinion pieces in audio format.
Helen Nicholls reviews The Reluctant Gay Activist, the revised memoir of former NSS president Terry Sanderson.
Read this original opinion piece: https://www.secularism.org.uk/opinion/2021/10/terry-sandersons-memoir-shows-that-gay-and-secularist-activism-often-go-hand-in-hand
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Opinion Out Loud brings you a selection of the National Secular Society’s opinion pieces in audio format.
The Armed Forces must dismantle their institutional Christian privilege if they are truly committed to inclusivity, says Megan Manson.
Read this original opinion piece: ‘Inclusive language’ in the army is meaningless without inclusive culture – National Secular Society (secularism.org.uk)
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Opinion Out Loud brings you a selection of the National Secular Society’s opinion pieces in audio format.
A new government fund exclusively for faith groups threatens to embed religious privilege into public services, warns Megan Manson.
Read this original opinion piece: https://www.secularism.org.uk/opinion/2021/09/beware-the-governments-new-normal-of-faith-based-public-services
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Opinion Out Loud brings you a selection of the National Secular Society’s opinion pieces in audio format.
As a bill to reform collective worship progresses in parliament, Stephen Evans argues that the time has come for lawmakers to recognise that laws mandating worship have no place in modern Britain.
Read this original opinion piece: https://www.secularism.org.uk/opinion/2021/09/schools-should-be-liberated-from-the-compulsion-of-worship
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Opinion Out Loud brings you a selection of the National Secular Society’s opinion pieces in audio format.
The Church of England’s new evangelical missional strategy should lead us to question its entitlement to proselytise in schools, argues Stephen Evans.
Read this original opinion piece: https://www.secularism.org.uk/opinion/2021/07/schools-arent-there-to-save-the-church
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Opinion Out Loud brings you a selection of the National Secular Society’s opinion pieces in audio format.
A parliamentary group has removed provisions in its ‘faith covenant’ that prevent faith groups from proselytising when delivering public services. This leaves vulnerable people open to exploitation, says Megan Manson.
Read this original opinion piece: https://www.secularism.org.uk/opinion/2021/07/helping-the-public-shouldnt-mean-pushing-religion-on-people
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Opinion Out Loud brings you a selection of the National Secular Society’s opinion pieces in audio format.
UN efforts to challenge violations of human rights should consider both oppressive laws which theocrats uphold in former colonies and efforts to impose similar agendas further afield, says Keith Porteous Wood.
Read this original opinion piece: https://www.secularism.org.uk/opinion/2021/05/the-religious-threat-to-global-human-rights-must-be-taken-seriously
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Opinion Out Loud brings you a selection of the National Secular Society’s opinion pieces in audio format.
Every child has been withdrawn from sex education classes at an independent faith school. Megan Manson says the parental right of withdrawal is incompatible with children’s right to an education that keeps them safe.
Read this original opinion piece: https://www.secularism.org.uk/opinion/2021/05/parents-religious-wishes-must-not-trump-childrens-safety-and-education
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Opinion Out Loud brings you a selection of the National Secular Society’s opinion pieces in audio format.
Read this original opinion piece: https://www.secularism.org.uk/opinion/2021/04/women-leaving-islam-the-rights-of-those-who-leave-religion-must-be-protected
The film Women Leaving Islam shows the risks facing those who stand up for the fundamental right to leave religion and the ongoing neglect of minorities within minorities in public life, says Helen Nicholls.
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Opinion Out Loud brings you a selection of the National Secular Society’s opinion pieces in audio format.
Read this original opinion piece: https://www.secularism.org.uk/opinion/2021/05/the-dfe-must-show-leadership-when-religious-hardliners-turn-on-schools
The start of an investigation into the Batley Grammar affair raises questions over the government’s willingness to ensure assertive religious voices don’t dictate what happens in classrooms, says Stephen Evans.
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