Diary
New commenting system and other changes
Wednesday, Mar 2, 2011Here at SHS Towers, our highly trained web monkeys have been labouring over a few changes to the site, and we’re a little bit excited. We’ve scrapped our entire registration and sign-in system, and replaced it with a new system designed to make it easier for you to share posts, comments and discussion on the Suffolk Humanists and Secularists site. Now, when read any story on the SHS site, you’ll see easier options for sharing it under ‘Share’, and easier options for adding your comments under ‘Respond’ – allowing you to sign in with Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo!Testing
Saturday, Feb 26, 2011Woo woo!Apologies
Tuesday, Feb 22, 2011Sorry there’ve been no updates for a couple of weeks. Been a bit busy with funerals. However, if you’d like to submit or suggest something for the website, please get in touch.Happy Darwin Day!
Saturday, Feb 12, 2011Happy Darwin Day, whatever you do, wherever you are.A fine mess
Friday, Feb 11, 2011When will Messrs Gove and Pickles stop dismantling our state education and welfare systems, and handing them over to religious organisations? How will we ever put them back together again, when they’ve finished messing about with them? In education, under Gove’s leadership, the changes are encouraging evangelicals. The Everyday Champions Church, based in Newark, wants to take advantage of Mr Gove’s free schools idea, to open a new school. Pastor Gareth Morgan told theRachel Maddow on the American link to the David Kato murder
Monday, Feb 7, 2011Click here for an interesting report by Rachel Maddow from msnbc.com on how American right-wing evangelists have influenced the Ugandans, where leading gay rights activist David Kato was murdered. She asks if foreign aid donors will make their continued help conditional on scrapping anti-gay policies.Something that climate change sceptics might understand
Friday, Feb 4, 2011If you watched BBC Four’s Storyville, Meet the Climate Sceptics, last week, you may have been exasperated by the arguments put forward by leading climate change deniers Lord Christopher Monckton and Telegraph columnist James Delingpole. Monckton has been to the USA and Australia to talk to the climate change deniers on TV and at public meetings, where he’s been received with huge enthusiasm. Delingpole has also been to the USA, where he’s appeared on right-wing TV host Glenn Beck’s programme, rubbishing the science behind climate change.International aid funds used to pay for the Popes visit
Thursday, Feb 3, 2011The British Humanist Association reports that 2 million towards the cost of the Pope’s visit to the UK last year came from the Department for International Development (DfID), justified as a recognition of “the Catholic Church’s role as a major provider of health and education services in developing countries”. The BHA has dismissed this as “irrational and wrong”.Pupil protest over hand-holding at St Benedicts Catholic College, Colchester
Wednesday, Feb 2, 2011Today’s Telegraph reports that students at St. Benedict’s in Colchester staged a protest after two were told off for holding hands. The headteacher, John O’Hara, said, “If we see students being overly familiar we always deal with it in an appropriate and tactful way.” Overly familiar? Can’t help wondering if this is about a fear of lesbianism? Girls have always been “familiar” with one another, with hugs and hand-holding. I remember photos of my mum as a teenager, arm in arm with her friends, or with their arms around each other’s shoulders.Murdered Ugandan gay activist David Katos funeral marred by pastors rant
Sunday, Jan 30, 2011Mourners at murdered Ugandan gay activist David Kato’s funeral were shocked when the presiding Anglican pastor, Thomas Musoke, called on homosexuals to repent, or “be punished by God”, but maybe it’s impossible to find a Ungandan pastor who isn’t ignorant and prejudiced?