The Atheist Blogger

Due to the overwhelming success of the “Atheist Bus” campaign, the British Humanist Association (BHA) have started a new campaign against faith schools in the UK. They are asking for only £30,000, and judging by the response of the last campaign, they will probably get a lot more! The money will be used to hire more staff for campaigning, as well as support movements through parliament.

The BHA released a newsletter thanking those who donated to the original campaign:

We have been overwhelmed with the support given to this campaign, and so the first thing to say is thanks to all of you! Many of you have been emailing or calling us, or leaving comments on the Just Giving site to say that you want a way to continue supporting our efforts and so we are emailing now with two suggestions: joining the BHA and donating to the campaign against faith schools.

The British Humanist Association is the national charity supporting and representing non-religious people. We promote humanism, and campaign for a secular state with an end to religious privilege and discrimination. Our campaigns include promoting an inclusive education system with no religious discrimination in admissions, balanced beliefs and values education, and an end to faith schools; removing Bishops from the House of Lords; opposing the contracting out of public services to religious organisations.

We realise many of you have already donated an extraordinary amount, but judging from your comments to us so far, many of you are keen to donate to the campaign against faith schools in particular (which is in fact one of our biggest campaigns) – and we certainly need the funding! Even if everyone who has given to the Atheist Bus Campaign so far gave only £10 to the campaign against faith schools, it would boost our campaign in the coming year to an incredible extent. At the moment our faith schools campaigner is only on a short term contract and we would love to raise the £30,000 needed to keep the post for another year!

So next year we can expect two things; buses and trains across the country with atheist slogans, and fewer faith schools (we hope).

Who says atheists don’t donate to charity now eh?