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** Your daily media briefing - Thursday 27 February

In the Media <[link removed]> is our daily collection of news and commentary related to secularism, available delivered to your inbox. You can also read the latest news and opinion <[link removed]> and listen to our podcasts on our website.

** Secularism in the media

* School trust's sex education policy "explicitly homophobic" <[link removed]>

A sex education policy which appeared on an academy trust's website has been criticised as "explicitly homophobic".

BBC News

* Nonreligious people 'less likely' to be satisfied with their health - NSS quoted <[link removed]>

The Office for National Statistics has published data linking religion and health in a bid "to understand the circumstances of people of different religious identities". The NSS has cautioned against oversimplifying "a much more complex and nuanced picture".

The Telegraph (£)

* State school segregation ‘rife’ as middle classes play system <[link removed]>

A report from the Sutton Trust has considered 'simplifying' faith school admissions in order to tackle socio-economic segregation.

The Times (£)

* DUP calls for 'extra protection' for Christians who do not want to be involved in gay weddings <[link removed]>

The DUP has declared current plans for protecting people from being coerced into participating in gay weddings "do not go far enough".

News Letter

* Priest who compared LGBT-inclusive education to Nazism invited to speak in UK parliament <[link removed]>

An anti-abortion Anglican priest who said LGBT-inclusive education is "state-sponsored abuse" and comparable to Nazism has been invited to speak in UK parliament.

Pink News

* Nine countries seek to ban gay 'conversion therapy' <[link removed]>

From electric shocks to 'praying away the gay', global momentum is growing to ban so-called "conversion therapy", with bills drawn up in nine countries, a rights group said on Wednesday.

Reuters

* Delhi riots: City tense after Hindu-Muslim clashes leave 27 dead <[link removed]>

Delhi remains on edge after three nights of rioting, with reports of Muslim homes and shops being targeted by violent mobs.

BBC News

* Survey finds a fifth of Europeans think secret Jewish cabal runs the world <[link removed]>

Fifth of the 16,000 respondents to poll revealed by Action and Protection League think 'Jews exploit Holocaust victim-hood for their own needs'

Jewish News

* 'Blasphemy still a potent tool for Pakistan's hushed hardliners' <[link removed]>

The communities most at threat from abuses of the blasphemy law are religious minorities, including the Ahmadi sect whose belief in a prophet after Mohammed is viewed as heresy by most mainstream Muslims in Pakistan.

Mail Online

** Latest from the NSS

* NSS urges council not to replace community school with faith school <[link removed]>

The National Secular Society has warned Surrey County Council that its plan to turn a community school into a faith school would disadvantage non-Anglican families.

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