In addition to our usual media and other public affairs work, we’ve been making a series of short, online comment pieces, specific to different areas of work.
Naomi Phillips, BHA Head of Public Affairs, said, ‘With many people’s minds focused on the election, we’ve been keen to promote a humanist perspective on the issues people care about, whether that’s religion and the education system, rational approaches to ethical issues in the public square, or human rights and free speech issues. With this series of comment pieces, in addition to our election manifestos, non-religious people now have even more support for getting their voices heard.’
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The BHA has comment pieces on communities, education and broadcasting and, coming up, have pieces on international free speech issues and Bishops in the Lords.
Read and download our election manifestos, which also contain questions for candidates.
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From 31% (BSA, 1992) to 56% (YouGov, 2004) of people in some polls, for example, do not profess a belief in god(s), and the most recent British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey found that 43% are happy to self-identify as non-religious. The BSA 2010 also found, in a measure of self-assessed religiosity in Britain, 59% of respondents did not describe themselves as religious.
The British Humanist Association is the national charity supporting and representing people who seek to live good lives without religious or superstitious beliefs.