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Yesterday the Government announced proposals to introduce outdoor civil marriages at approved premises on a permanent basis and to also introduce outdoor religious marriages, but failed to make any similar reforms to legally recognise humanist marriages. Humanists UK has urged the Government to act now to legally recognise humanist marriages without delay. Humanists UK Chief… Read more »
Yesterday, the Government published its long-awaited proposals on reforming the Human Rights Act. If passed into law, these reforms will have a devastating impact on the fundamental rights of humanists. The Government has announced it wants to reform section 3 of the Act to severely curtail the ability of public authorities and the courts to ‘read… Read more »
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Blocking terrorist financing will be as important in the war on terror as fingerprinting and DNA has been to crime fighting in the past, Gordon Brown has said. The chancellor today called for new powers to stop payments to terror suspects in the UK and to use confidential intelligence, or closed source evidence, for the… Read more »
Government attempts to integrate minority faith communities have left society “more separated than ever before”, the Church of England has warned. A leaked document also accuses ministers of sidelining the church and giving “privileged attention” to Britain’s Muslim community as part of efforts to promote multiculturalism in the wake of last year’s July 7th London… Read more »
