#secular
This is misuse of public money; faith schools are permitted to teach relationships and sex education (RSE) from their religious perspective, including the Catholic Church's opposition to contraception, sex outside of marriage and same-sex relationships #secular #religion #freedomfromreligion
From Mike #Bowers’ lens to your eyeballs
https://live.australiainstitute.org.au/2025/07/australia-institute-live-first-sitting-of-the-48th-parliament/
(Scroll down to 12:59 AEST for Bowers’ photos)
Thank you photographer at large for the pictures (all worth a thousand words). One in particular… the #ecumenical service … in our Parliament… representing around 35% of the population declaring themselves non-religious — let’s not talk about all the other religious minorities. Why? Why bring religion into our Houses?
I propose a well funded public education campaign to teach the electorate that a #secular govt is the best protector of #democracy. The campaign is to make an unopposable case for changing the constitution to ban all ‘magical’ services — with apologies to all unlightened believers in a superior and immaterial being(s) — in all Houses of Representation throught the realm.
There… I’ve hoisted my flag. I hasten to say that I will probalby die on this hill.
Erdoğan tells protesters against Islamification in northern Cyprus they will fail https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/03/erdogan-tells-protesters-against-islamification-in-northern-cyprus-they-will-fail?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #Turkey #Cyprus #Secular
A skeptical Justice #KetanjiBrownJackson asked whether #religious groups should be entitled to start #CharterSchools even though #Oklahoma charter #law seeks to establish only #secular #schools.
“As I see it, [St. Isidore] is not being denied a benefit that everyone else gets,” Jackson said. “It’s being denied a benefit that no one else gets, which is the ability to establish a religious #PublicSchool.”
#law #SCOTUS #Constitution #ChurchAndState #NewApostolicReformation #education
However, #Oklahoma’s AG disagreed & said #CharterSchools are #public entities that must be #secular [agreed].
Chief Justice #JohnRoberts pointed out that the court’s earlier #religious-rights decisions involved discrete #tax or #tuition credits & said this proposal “does strike me as much more comprehensive involvement” by the #government in #religion.
#law #SCOTUS #Constitution #ChurchAndState #NewApostolicReformation #education #indoctrination #FederalistSociety #FarRight #ActivistCourt #USpol