Atheist Ireland | May 2017 - Atheist Ireland

28/05/2017 Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #283 – Freedom of and from religion for all

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21/05/2017 Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #282 – No School as Majority Rules

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17/05/2017 Atheist Ireland

Ask your TDs today to vote for the Equal Participation in Schools Bill tomorrow

Tomorrow, Thursday 18 May, the Dail will vote on the Equal Participation in Schools Bill that it debated yesterday. Please contact your TDs today and ask them to vote for this. It is proposed by Solidarity and People Before Profit, and it incorporates proposals from Atheist Ireland and the Irish ...

14/05/2017 Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #281- Equality Polity

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14/05/2017 Atheist Ireland

Support the Equal Participation in Schools Bill 2016

The Equal Participation in Schools Bill 2016 will be debated in the Dail next Tuesday night between 8pm and 10pm. If passed this Bill would ensure that all children and their parents have access to an education system with equal respect and dignity and where their human rights are guaranteed. ...

08/05/2017 Atheist Ireland

Gardai decision to drop Stephen Fry blasphemy investigation creates an incentive to demonstrate outrage

The Gardai are reported to have decided to not proceed with the Stephen Fry blasphemy investigation. The reported reason for this decision is even more dangerous than a prosecution would have been. The Gardai have not denied that the comments were grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matter held ...

07/05/2017 Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #280 – Say a little prayer

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06/05/2017 Atheist Ireland

Stephen Fry blasphemy investigation also threatens RTE, Irish Times and Atheist Ireland

The police investigation into Stephen Fry for blasphemy also threatens RTE, the Irish Times and Atheist Ireland. The offence of blasphemy is committed not only by the person who first utters a blasphemous statement, but also by anybody who publishes it. RTE published the statement by Stephen Fry when they ...

06/05/2017 Atheist Ireland

International blasphemy expert Prof David Nash responds to police investigation of Stephen Fry

Professor David Nash of Oxford Brookes University is an international expert on the history and contemporary status of blasphemy laws throughout Europe and beyond. He has worked with Atheist Ireland at the United Nations and the Irish Constitutional Convention to seek abolition of the Irish blasphemy law. He has today ...

06/05/2017 Atheist Ireland

Atheist Ireland republishes 25 blasphemous quotes in solidarity with Stephen Fry

Atheist Ireland welcomes the Irish police investigation into Stephen Fry for blasphemy. It highlights a law that is silly, silencing, and dangerous. On 1 January 2010, the day the new Irish blasphemy law became operational, Atheist Ireland published a list of 25 blasphemous quotes in order to challenge the law. Today, ...