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05/11/2019 No Comments Atheist Ireland

Government blocking Objective Sex Education Bill and 50 others

The Government is using a procedure called a Money Message to block over 50 Bills that have been passed in the Dail by opposition parties, including Solidarity’s Bill to provide Objective Sex Education without interference by a school’s religious ethos. Solidarity and People Before Profit will be proposing a new ...

03/11/2019 No Comments Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #410 – Atheism and Secularism are Global

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03/11/2019 No Comments Atheist Ireland

Support the making of Debutante, a short film

Please support the making of Debutante, a film about religious control and coming-of-age in a hostile environment. You can help to make it happen by contributing to the crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo. The Jehovah’s Witnesses religion controls its members by restricting their sexuality and shunning them if they don’t keep ...

27/10/2019 No Comments Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #409 – A Year Since the Blasphemy Referendum

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25/10/2019 No Comments Atheist Ireland

Hate speech review must not reintroduce blasphemy by another name

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression, David Kaye, has told the UN General Assembly that there is no ‘heckler’s veto’ in international human rights law. His Report gives conclusions and recommendations for how States and Companies should approach online hate speech. Some of his key points are: Offline human ...

20/10/2019 No Comments Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #408 – Sex Education report and Religious Ethos

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15/10/2019 No Comments Atheist Ireland

UN to raise racial and religious discrimination in the Irish Education system

In Geneva this December, Ireland will be examined by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD). Last Friday, the UN CERD Committee published a List of Themes for the examination of Ireland in December. Atheist Ireland, the Evangelical Alliance of Ireland,  and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community ...

15/10/2019 5 Comments Atheist Ireland

Catholic School lesson plan promotes sexist, violent, antisemitic, forged Bible passage

A lesson plan in the Catholic Grow in Love series, for sixth class students, has the students acting out the Bible story about “the woman caught in adultery." This will be taught in about 90% of State-funded primary schools in Ireland, and teachers who want a job in these schools ...

13/10/2019 No Comments Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #407 – The State should not endorse ‘miracles’

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07/10/2019 No Comments Atheist Ireland

Internal ETBI report vindicates Atheist Ireland claims about religion in State schools

Today the Irish Times published details of an internal ETBI report that vindicates what Atheist Ireland has been saying for years about the teaching of religion in Education and Training Board schools. ETBs are supposed to be the State-run alternative to denominational schools, but unfortunately many of them are run ...

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