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** Your daily media briefing - Thursday 15 August

In the Media <[link removed]>, our daily collection of news and commentary related to secularism, is one of the most popular features on our website and now available delivered to your inbox.

** Secularism in the media

* Public Health England stops telling people to seek faith leaders’ advice over vaccines – NSS quoted <[link removed]>

Health officials have backtracked over guidance encouraging parents to seek advice from "faith or community leaders" before deciding whether to vaccinate their children after the NSS questioned it.

The Times (£)

* Gay marriage cake: customer takes case to European court <[link removed]>

Lawyers representing a man from Northern Ireland who sued a bakery for refusing to make a cake with pro-gay marriage message are going to Europe to challenge a supreme court ruling that its evangelical Christian owners had a right to refuse to bake it.

The Guardian

* Fewer people getting married in Scotland, with small proportion choosing religious ceremonies <[link removed]>

The number of people getting married in Scotland continued to fall last year, new figures show. Almost half of marriages were civil ceremonies and nearly a quarter were humanist ceremonies.

The Scotsman

* ‘The doctors and parents arguing for FGM in the US’ <[link removed]>

Suman Naishadham says some in the US are arguing that some forms of FGM should be acceptable, and drawing on the perceived acceptability of male circumcision to back them up.

Vice

* Trump rule to protect contractors who discriminate against LGBT workers <[link removed]>

The Trump administration has opened the door to permitting government contractors to discriminate against LGBT employees with a proposed rule that frames the issue as protecting companies' religious beliefs.

Politico

* Indian court acquits six of killing Muslim dairy farmer in cow vigilante case <[link removed]>

An Indian court on Wednesday acquitted six men of the killing of a 55-year-old Muslim dairy farmer, citing lack of evidence, raising questions over the prosecution's failure to make its case despite videos of a crowd beating him in the street.

Reuters

* Town fights link to abortion ban city <[link removed]>

A twinning ceremony between a city in Alabama where abortion has been almost completely banned and an Aberdeenshire town has collapsed amid tensions over right-wing and white supremacist politics.

The Times (£)

** In case you missed it: from the No More Faith Schools campaign

* Faith based selection sends a damaging message to our children <[link removed]>

Joanne Bartley, a campaigner with the group Comprehensive Future, argues that a comprehensive education system should also be free of religious selection.

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