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Help the British Humanist Association (BHA) in its effort to phase out state funded 'faith' schools and reform our education system by ensuring we can employ our dedicated campaigns officer against faith schools for another year.

The BHA campaigns for inclusive schools with no religious admissions policies, balanced teaching about different beliefs and values, and no compulsory 'collective worship'. The BHA also campaigns to combat the growing threat to education from creationism and pseudoscience, as well as for wider improvements to values and moral education across the school curriculum and supports improved Sex and Relationships Education, Citizenship Education and inclusion of Philosophy.

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Our campaigner will make sure that the voice of UK citizens who oppose faith schools is represented in the most powerful way. To do this our campaigner helps to stimulate and organise local campaigns against new faith schools and lobby government and parliament to reform the laws that allow state funded schools to discriminate on religious grounds, that requires they provide collective worship and to teach unbalanced curricula of religious education.

Over the last year we have managed to get the government to agree to teach evolution in primary school science lessons in England for the first time, as well as support successful legal action against discriminatory admissions policies and support successful local campaigns against the expansion in the provision of faith schools, such as in Swanage, Dorset.

To achieve our objectives requires long term dedication and with your support we can continue our campaigning activities, so please give generously to this work.

All money donated beyond our target will be spent on BHA education campaigns.

This for Ann Widdecombe in The Bible C4; says the 10 commandments all we need, this is about 600 commandments short of that observed by most humanists Donation by Malcolm Dodd - mal1@onetel.com 09/02/10  

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Come on - let's push it over the 30 grand! It's a vital cause - especially with the prospect of hundreds of new faith schools courtesy of the Tories! Donation by David Pollock 09/02/10  

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Donation by Gordon Johnston 08/02/10  

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fabulous work that must continue. so happy to be a happy humanist! Donation by christine berrisford 08/02/10  

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Clear thinking and good ideas - ace! Donation by Sarah Mills 08/02/10  

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happy to help, keep up the good work. Donation by john partington 08/02/10  

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Keep up the good work. Donation by Ben Jones 08/02/10  

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Excellent Donation by Mike Ayres 07/02/10  

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Valuable work, keep fighting! Donation by Ian Holt 07/02/10  

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Cracking campaign. All the best. Donation by Sam Hale 07/02/10  

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Nearly there! This is such a vital campaign ... best of luck for this rest of this year! Donation by John Fitzgerald 07/02/10  

AlphaPosters campaign target £100,000, raised £2,043 in 15 months; xtians donated £27 in past year! We raised £27 every 2 hours of past 3 months. Donation by Malcolm Dodd - mal1@onetel.com 07/02/10  

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Donation by Anonymous 06/02/10  

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Donation by DAVID BENNETT 05/02/10  

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the sooner we can debunk the 'value' of faith schools, the better Donation by Roger Fletcher 05/02/10  

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I thought that the verb pontificate (definition below) resulted from the utterances of ex Nazi Herr Ratzinger on condoms (increases risk of AIDS) etc Donation by Malcolm Dodd - mal1@onetel.com 03/02/10  

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Herr Ratzinger became the present pontiff. The verb “pontificate” (see definition below) derives from pontiff and was first used in this sense in 1898 Donation by Malcolm Dodd - mal1@onetel.com 02/02/10  

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Pontificate, v. OED definition - To speak in a dogmatic or pompous manner; to behave in an arrogant or high-handed way. Donation by Malcolm Dodd - mal1@onetel.com 02/02/10  

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Inspired by the announcement of the visit of the pontiff. Donation by Lynda Howard 02/02/10  

Hoorah to the cause! Let's see if we can remove these unenlightened blights from Blighty, the French seem to. H2O into wine chemical equation? Please? Donation by John Jones 02/02/10  

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Ann. Pope does not want to employ homosexuals, but is quite content when celibacy turns them into kiddy-fiddling ones. I wonder if they use condoms? Donation by Malcolm Dodd - mal1@onetel.com 02/02/10  

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Worth the extra donation to remind everyone to visit secularism.org.uk to tell the pope to holiday elsewhere next summer Donation by Ann Bracewell 02/02/10  

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Only 36!. Makes sense if you think a woman is worth half a man. As usual it's the idiotic precise details that give the game away. Donation by Tim Hewson 02/02/10  

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Tim If naïve enough to believe this crap, naïve enough to believe virgins are best. Have consulted an authority, female suicide bombers get 36 virgins Donation by Malcolm Dodd - mal1@onetel.com 02/02/10  

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Malcom, I've never understood the 72 virgins. Surely 72 really experienced members of your prefered sex would be preferable. Donation by Tim Hewson 02/02/10  

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Is the female suicide bomber of yesterday in Baghdad now enjoying 72 virgin men in heaven, or does normal Islamic discrimination against women apply? Donation by Malcolm Dodd - mal1@onetel.com 02/02/10  

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