Uganda Should Not be Allowed to Attend the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Uganda should not be allowed to attend the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, writes Garry Otton In Uganda, in 2010, popular newspaper Rolling Stone ran a story on “100 PICTURES OF UGANDA’S TOP HOMOS” printing their names and addresses and calling for the hanging of homosexuals. Amongst the list ofRead More…
How Low Can the Catholic Church Go?
As much as Scotland’s fourth estate might try to paper over the cracks with whatever the Scottish Catholic Media Office might throw at it, there are no escaping calls from the Scottish Secular Society for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and the Vatican State to face charges for Crimes Against HumanityRead More…
The SSS call for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and the Vatican State to face charges for Crimes Against Humanity
PRESS RELEASE The Scottish Secular Society call for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and the Vatican State to face charges for Crimes Against Humanity The Scottish Secular Society welcomes the report of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child dated 31st of January 2014. In it, the CommitteeRead More…
Meeting Michael McGrath, Catholicism and Secularism Collide
Today I accompanied a concerned parent to a meeting with Michael McGrath, Director of the Scottish Catholic Education Service. In the course of this meeting, Mr McGrath accused the Scottish Secular Society of exaggeration, and stated that it was unreasonable to expect the school to comply with plain provisions ofRead More…
Time for Reflection, a response to the HSS / CofS proposal
On Friday the 24th of January, we were alerted by a Church of Scotland press release to a new deal done between the Kirk and the Humanist Society Scotland which would see a reform of Religious Observance to remove the overt religious components which cause a problem for so manyRead More…
The Kirktonholme School Scandal
If not being fed to children from converted buses loaded with hi-tech equipment parked outside the school – Christianity is already through the school gates and in the classroom. In 2013, shocked parents discovered an extremist religious sect had been rubbishing evolution and brainwashing their children entirely without their knowledgeRead More…
Proselytising in Schools: Government Dismiss Parents’ Concerns
It is clear from the letters from MSPs to constituents urging a change to Opt-in to Religious Observance (RO) in schools that Ministers are being whipped to support the government line that it should remain an Opt-out. The Scottish Secular Society submitted a plethora of evidence to the Parliamentary Committee,Read More…
Press Release – Response to draft guidance on sex education
The Scottish Secular Society has formally responded to the Scottish Government draft guidelines on draft guidance on Conduct of Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood Education New draft guidance has been launched by the Scottish Government and is currently under consideration. While the Scottish Secular Society agrees with much ofRead More…
PRESS RELEASE: On statement from Alasdair Allan, Minister for Education on creationism in Scottish schools.
Press Release The Scottish Secular Society believes that the statement released today by Alasdair Allan, Minister for Education, on creationism in Scottish Schools is to be welcomed. In a letter today to the Scottish Secular Society, Mr Allan stressed that “Creationism, is not a scientific theory and is not aRead More…
Quackery on the NHS
The Court of Session is set to challenge NHS Lothian’s announcement that it is to cut the £240,000 a year it spends on homeopathic services. Homeopathy is a form of quackery – a placebo at best – that dilutes substances that cause symptoms hundreds or thousands of times before administeringRead More…