Secularism

18 December 2012

Legislating for Equality In Marriage Registration – Atheist Ireland briefing document for TDs for debate this Thursday

Atheist Ireland today wrote to TDs asking them to amend the Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill, which will be debated in the Dail this Thursday, 20 December 2012. See an earlier article on this Bill here. We also copied this letter to the Irish Human Rights...

16 December 2012

Secular Sunday #51 – Civil Discourse

It’s time for this week’s Secular Sunday! In this issue: News Upcoming Events B News The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) is running an Anti-Discrimination Law Review Project with an Advisory Group made up of representatives of various minority groups. In October, Atheist Ireland...

14 December 2012

The ICCL published, and now denies, that there is a Catholic Bishops Conference representative on its Anti-Discrimination Law project group

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties has repeatedly publicly alleged this week that Atheist Ireland has made a number of material inaccuracies in our letters to them about unconscious bias against atheists in their Anti-Discrimination Law project. Today the ICCL publicly posted on its Facebook...

10 December 2012

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties is discriminating against atheists, and is failing to address the issue

Atheist Ireland has today emailed the following letter to the Irish Council for Civil liberties, and to the members of the Advisory Group and Research Team of the ICCL’s Anti-Discrimination Law Review Project. On 23 October Atheist Ireland discovered that the ICCL is running an...

7 December 2012

Bill for secular marriages passes in Irish Senate, but it needs to be amended to treat all religious and secular bodies equally

The Irish Senate yesterday passed a Bill enabling secular bodies to nominate people who can legally solemnize marriages. Currently only the State or a religious body can do this. The Humanist Association of Ireland has for years nominated people who can conduct marriage ceremonies, but...

25 November 2012

Secular Sunday #48 – Road Trip

Wakey wakey, rise and shine! It’s obscenely early but here’s this week’s Secular Sunday! In this issue: Sanal Edamaruku Other Upcoming Events

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19 November 2012

Separate Church and State Now! Public Meetings in Dublin, Cork, Galway and Belfast with Sanal Edamaruku

  Why should a respected Indian author be facing jail for exposing a crying Catholic statue as being caused by faulty plumbing? This week you can hear from the victim of this unjust law, as Sanal Edamaruku visits Ireland for a speaking tour. Atheist Ireland...

21 October 2012

Working for an ethical, secular society: Atheist Ireland’s plans for next year, from our AGM yesterday

Following our 2012 Annual General Meeting yesterday, these are the mission, aims, officers, committee members, and political and other priorities for Atheist Ireland for the next year: Contents Mission Statement and Aims Officers and Committee Major Political Priorities Policy on Ethical Issues Making Atheist Ireland...

21 October 2012

Working for an ethical, secular society: Atheist Ireland's plans for next year, from our AGM yesterday

Following our 2012 Annual General Meeting yesterday, these are the mission, aims, officers, committee members, and political and other priorities for Atheist Ireland for the next year: Contents Mission Statement and Aims Officers and Committee Major Political Priorities Policy on Ethical Issues Making Atheist Ireland...

2 October 2012

You have rights, your beliefs do not: Michael Nugent’s speech to the OSCE human rights meeting in Poland

This is Michael Nugent’s speech to the OSCE human rights meeting in Warsaw, Poland, yesterday on protecting the human rights of atheists and ending blasphemy laws internationally.

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