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** Your daily media briefing - Wednesday 31 July
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
* Catholic archbishop urges action to keep school voting rights - NSS referenced <[link removed]>
Scots law states that there must be three church representatives on council education committees. Secularists say it is undemocratic to give unelected church members a unique legally binding role in education policy.
The Times (£)
* Schools offered support for LGBT lessons by Lambeth Council to counter homophobia fears <[link removed]>
Lambeth Council is writing to schools across the borough in support of LGBT-inclusive sex and relationship education.
SW London
* Charedi organisations begin to lobby new Education Secretary <[link removed]>
Chinuch UK, the campaign group for strictly orthodox Jewish education, has written to the new minister to request a meeting, while the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations has invited him to visit some of the community's schools.
The JC
* Non-stun slaughter critic George Eustice gets ministerial post <[link removed]>
George Eustice, who has returned as a minister to the department after resigning earlier this year because of delays over Brexit, is a critic of religious methods of slaughter without stunning.
The JC
* Catholic priest who repeatedly raped two schoolboys is jailed for 18 years <[link removed]>
Michael Higginbottom was a Catholic priest at St Joseph's College in Lancashire.
Mail Online
* UK 'has responsibility' to prosecute IS fighters <[link removed]>
The failure to bring Britons who fought for the Islamic State group to justice in the UK is a "dereliction of responsibility", a top US counter-terrorism official says.
BBC News
* 'Historic' day as India outlaws 'triple talaq' Islamic instant divorce <[link removed]>
Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist administration has been pushing to criminalise "triple talaq", under which a man can divorce by uttering the word "talaq", meaning divorce in Arabic, three times in his wife's presence.
The Guardian
* "The False Demonization Of Secularism" <[link removed]>
"A desperate, panicked, and openly theocratic evangelical movement is falsely demonizing secularism and those who believe in the separation of church and state as a threat to religion."
Above The Law
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* The ‘minister for faith’ shouldn’t be replaced <[link removed]>
After the minister for faith's resignation, Stephen Evans says this unnecessary role enables the government to promote a positive view of religion and should be abandoned.
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