The important role Humanists play advocating progressive secular policies across party political lines is examined in Barking & Dagenham Post opinion piece (28.8.19).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
This summer I had the privilege of attending a parliamentary reception for Humanists UK.\u00a0 It was a reminder of how much more there is to politics than Brexit. \u00a0It was hosted by Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group, Tory MP Crispin Blunt. I also spotted Dame Joan Bakewell, long-standing media personality, now a Labour peer. The Group comprises over 100 parliamentarians from across the political spectrum. Members have common cause striving for a secular world of compassion, respect and reason where everyone is equal under the law, whatever their ethnicity, sexuality, religion or belief.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Unity for good among people with such diverse political convictions gives hope in a country quagmired and divided by Brexit, on which incidentally Crispin and Dame Joan strongly disagree. The reception celebrated advances Humanists have made over the last year, and reviewed challenges that lie ahead. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Humanists wait with interest to see how Johnson\u2019s Government, assuming it survives, addresses \u00a0issues on which we have been campaigning. It is clearly very different from that of May. A vicar\u2019s daughter, she made no secret of the role faith played in her politics. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Under May’s watch divisive religious schools continued to proliferate. The response to homophobic demonstrations against equality education in schools was feeble. And legal recognition of Humanist marriages in England was blocked. In Scotland, where they have been recognised since 2005, they now outnumber those of all other belief groups.\u00a0 Surely a fair Government, of whichever hue, must allow the same rights here? <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Paul Kaufman The important role Humanists play advocating progressive secular policies across party political lines is examined in Barking & Dagenham Post opinion piece (28.8.19).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9c4oP-w4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1989,"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions\/1989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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