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** Your daily media briefing - Wednesday 1 July
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** Secularism in the media
* Landmark High Court challenge to legally recognise Humanist marriages <[link removed]>
Six couples are taking a landmark challenge to the High Court next week in a bid to get legal recognition for humanist weddings in England and Wales.
BBC
* Controlled schools ‘disappointed’ by lack of funding compared to Catholic maintained schools in NI <[link removed]>
Education Minister Peter Weir announced £156 in capital funding for nine schools last week – eight of which are from the Catholic Maintained schools sector, with only one from the controlled schools sector.
News Letter
* PM thanks Christians who prayed for him at National Parliamentary Prayer Breakfast <[link removed]>
The Prime Minister has thanked Christians who prayed for him while he was hospitalised with coronavirus earlier this year. Boris Johnson was speaking at the National Parliamentary Prayer Breakfast, which was broadcast live from the Houses of Parliament on Tuesday.
Premier Christian News
* Campaigner who exposed abuse in church is awarded for ‘outstanding service’ <[link removed]>
Phil Johnson, who exposed sexual abuse in the Church of England, has been awarded by the church for 'outstanding services' to improving safeguarding.
Eastbourne Herald
* 'I wish I had been raised without religion' <[link removed]>
'The older I got, the more I felt like I was being forced to believe and often found myself defending morals that I didn't really believe in.'
Metro
* Morning prayer in the Assembly of Ireland - Letter <[link removed]>
A letter calls morning prayers in the Dáil "incongruous" and "embarrassing".
The Irish Times
* Former Irish president condemns Catholic Church for 'intrinsically evil' teachings on homosexuality <[link removed]>
Former president Mary McAleese has described the Catholic Church's teachings around homosexuality as "intrinsically evil" and amounting to homophobia, suggesting it "empowers the homophobic bully".
The Journal
* US: High court sparks new battle over church-state separation <[link removed]>
The Supreme Court elated religious freedom advocates and alarmed secular groups with its Tuesday ruling on public funding for religious education, a decision whose long-term effect on the separation of church and state remains to be seen.
Mail Online / Associated Press
* 'SCOTUS just poked another hole in the wall separating church and state; schools will suffer' <[link removed]>
"The Supreme Court has, as expected, poked another hole in the wall between church and state; it will weaken public education and open the door to making taxpayers foot the bill for religious discrimination."
Forbes
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* Minister to correct record on hate crime bill after NSS intervention <[link removed]>
Scotland's justice secretary will offer to correct the parliamentary record after he misrepresented part of a bill on hate crime.
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