by Peter Harrison | Aug 14, 2017 | News
We strongly support repeal of the sections of the Education Act which support religious indoctrination in state schools. We believe these provisions allow school boards to discriminate against children in their schools on the basis of belief. It serves to alienate...
by Peter Harrison | Aug 14, 2017 | News
We strongly support the right of people to end their lives when due to persistent chronic suffering or terminal illness they rationally choose to do so. To keep people alive against their will in the face of unending suffering is quite simply inhuman. This is not...
by Peter Harrison | Aug 14, 2017 | News
We seek the repeal of laws which criminalize speech against religion. While this law has not successfully been used to achieve a conviction it has been invoked on occasion. But more seriously this law gives moral cover for other countries not only to enact blasphemy...
by Peter Harrison | Jul 3, 2017 | News
The NZ Rationalists and Humanists have committed to meeting donations dollar for dollar up to $50,000 to support the campaign to end the discriminatory practice of religious instruction in New Zealand primary schools. David Hines and Tanya Jacob have filed a case...
by Peter Harrison | Jan 1, 2017 | Schools Campaign
A complaint against the Human Rights Commission has been laid by the New Zealand Association of Rationalists and Humanists, citing the HRC’s failure to address state sanctioned religious discrimination in primary schools. Peter Harrison, President of the Rationalists...
by Mark Honeychurch | Oct 13, 2016 | Schools Campaign
An Auckland father’s case against school Bible classes has been ended by the Supreme Court. Auckland father Jeff McClintock sued an Auckland school after they persisted in placing his daughter in Bible worship classes without his consent. The classes, called...
