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Why should you pick a humanist wedding?

Why should you pick a humanist wedding?

With love in the air, and the first proper wedding season for two years getting into full swing, we ask James Thomas, Brighton-based LGBTQ+ wedding celebrant, the question: Why should we pick a humanist wedding?

Humanists become first Northern Ireland member of Coalition Against Conversion Therapy

Humanists become first Northern Ireland member of Coalition Against Conversion Therapy

Northern Ireland Humanists (NIH), alongside Humanists UK, becomes members of the Coalition against Conversion Therapy (CACT), a coalition of leading psychological, psychotherapeutic, and counselling organisations committed to ending conversion therapy, and who hope to extend the reach of its activit

Faith groups demand Government’s permission for homophobic teaching in English schools

Faith groups demand Government’s permission for homophobic teaching in English schools

Humanists UK, the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people, reveal fundamentalist and fringe religious groups attempt to undermine the Government’s plans for relationships and sex education (RSE) in English schools by opposing teaching about same-sex relationships.

Jersey recognises humanist and same-sex marriages

Jersey recognises humanist and same-sex marriages

Humanists UK led the campaign for recognition of humanist marriages and supported legal same-sex marriages as well. A tabled amendment to give religious business-owners the right to refuse good and services to same-sex couples was soundly defeated by a majority of States Assembly members.

53% of Britons are non-religious, says latest BSA Survey

53% of Britons are non-religious, says latest BSA Survey

The 34th annual British Social Attitudes Survey shows that non-religious people represent a clear majority of British people in 2017. This accounts for 53% of the general population, a new high for the non-religious population, which was previously estimated at 51% in 2014.

Court of Appeal in Belfast “passes buck” on women’s rights

Court of Appeal in Belfast “passes buck” on women’s rights

The court of appeal in Belfast rules that reform of abortion law in Northern Ireland should be left to the Northern Ireland Assembly, and not decided by the courts. In 2015 the High Court ruled that Northern Ireland’s restrictive abortion laws violate the rights of women to a private life under Euro

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