Suffolk Humanists and Secularists

The BHA is appealing for its supporters to use an Internet tool to send a message to the 26 bishops who sit in the House of Lords: Time for a reformed second chamber! Click here to go to the BHA site.

If you've been following the campaign to stop the funding for homeopathy on the NHS, and the mass overdose outside branches of Boots, you'll be delighted to hear that Parliament's Science and Technology Select Committee, after hearing all the evidence, has called for the complete withdrawal of NHS funding and official licencing of homeopathy.

Sinéad O'Connor, the Irish Catholic singer-songwriter, has reacted angrily to the news that the Bishop of Ferns, Denis Brennan, has asked parishioners to help pay the compensation claimed by the church's abuse victims. Apparently, he was "“asking for help to fulfil a God-given responsibility”.

Thanks to Catherine Bennett, I've learned a new 'ology - eschatology, literally the study of the last. So, if there's an eschatology, there must be eschatologists, right? Gosh, they must be fun in the pub. "Oh, hello, what do you do?" "I study the end of the world." Pause. "Really? How does that happen?" "Well, the dead could be resurrected, or the Devil could be set free, or adultery and fornication will be performed in the open, or ..." "Where's my drink?"

Our March newsletter is now available - click here to download it (pdf)

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BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson was interviewed on BBC News about the amendment to the Children, Schools and Families Bill (see previous posts), before it was debated. Sadly, the Commons voted for Ed Balls' amendement.

Video courtesy of the BHA