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Civil Partnership (Scotland) Bill call for views
The Scottish Government are consulting on proposals to remove the gender qualification for civil partnerships, i.e. that they would be available to couples not of the same sex. The consultation can be found here and anyone is welcome to respond, although the deadline is this...
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Ross Greer with the Scottish Secular Society
We are happy to announce that Ross Greer has confirmed to be our guest and speaker for our August 2nd meeting. Sworn in as an MSP for the West of Scotland in 2016, Ross has been a tenacious activist since joining the Green Party at 15 years old. He has continuing deep...
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Secularists Must Challenge Racist Discourse Not Enable It
Secularism, like any other social concept, carries different connotations to different people in different parts of the world. To consolidate a purely definitional view of secularism as proposed by French academic Jean Bauberot: secularism is the formal separation of the state...
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Press Release – Dismay at the Scottish Government’s plans to increase funding for Catholic education.
On June 2nd Nicola Sturgeon revealed plans to multiply by a factor of almost 5 the amount of public money being spent on preparing trainee teachers for the Catholic Teaching Certificate (CTC), a requirement for teaching in Catholic schools but for no other purpose. Although the...
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"Freedom of religion, Freedom from religion, Equality for all."
Founded in 2013, the Scottish Secular Society is Scotland’s largest independent secular organisation. We advocate freedom of, as well as freedom from religion.
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