Secular Sunday #172 – Easy Peasy
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The National Council for Curriculum & Assessment has a positive obligation to protect human rights
Atheist Ireland recently met with the NCCA and presented them with a Document named; Respecting the philosophical convictions of atheist/secular families in the education system. The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment are developing a course on Education about Religions and Beliefs and Ethics (ERB). Given the legal framework in ...
Secular Policy Institute asks why are “shock jock” bloggers invited to lecture at major secular conferences?
The Secular Policy Institute has responded to Atheist Ireland’s public dissociation from the harmful and hateful rhetoric of the atheist blogger PZ Myers. The Institute says that the secular movement should stop rewarding those who cause discord, and it asks why are “shock jock” bloggers invited to lecture at major ...
Support the right to abortion – Atheist Ireland joins Coalition to Repeal the Eighth Amendment
Atheist Ireland today joined the Coalition to Repeal the Eighth Amendment, to enable the Irish Government to legislate for abortion consistently with the human rights of pregnant women. Other members of the Coalition are: Abortion Rights Campaign; Action for Choice; AIMS; Akidwa; Anti-Racism Network; Atheist Ireland, Choice Ireland; Cork Women’s ...
Friendly Atheist Hemant Mehta says it is no wonder Atheist Ireland wants nothing to do with PZ Myers
Hemant Mehta, The Friendly Atheist, has said that it is no wonder that Atheist Ireland wants nothing to do with PZ Myers, that he gets why people would rather avoid him, and that after once writing a blurb endorsing PZ’s book, Hemant has wanted less and less to do with ...
Atheist Northern Ireland supports Atheist Ireland’s dissociation from the rhetoric of PZ Myers
Atheist Northern Ireland has issued the following statement: Our colleagues Atheist Ireland have publicly dissociated from the harmful and hateful rhetoric of atheist blogger PZ Myers. This is a link to the Atheist Ireland statement. We'd like to extend our support for this move; we've witnessed the deteriorating relationship between ...
Atheist Ireland publicly dissociates itself from the harmful and hateful rhetoric of PZ Myers
Atheist Ireland is publicly dissociating itself from the hurtful and dehumanising, hateful and violent, unjust and defamatory rhetoric of the atheist blogger PZ Myers. The final of many, many straws were his latest smear that Ayaan Hirsi Ali is ‘happily exploiting atrocities’, and his subsequent description of Atheist Ireland’s chairperson ...
The School Admissions Bill will institutionalise religious discrimination
The proposed new Education (Admissions) to Schools Bill will not remove religious discrimination from our education system and protect human rights. Despite the requirement that the Admissions policies of schools will be obliged to include a statement that they shall not discriminate on religion, publicly funded National schools can still ...
Secular Sunday #171 – Long Weekend
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Atheist Ireland talks to Danish students about secularism, abortion, marriage equality
Michael Nugent and Jane Donnelly recently met a group of Danish students who were in Ireland to study secularism, marriage equality and abortion.
