(For UK citizens only.) Further to my previous post about the government recognising the value that the non-religious have in the UK, and for those of you who haven’t seen these before, we need your voices to add to the chorus (see what I did there?) of dissent to help raise awareness of places where religion receives special treatment from the government, and prevent further inroads into state-sponsorship of religion.

Here are a number of petitions that you can sign to help raise awareness:

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister…

… to Abolish all faith schools and prohibit the teaching of creationism and other religious mythology in all UK schools.

… to ban within government-funded schools the promotion or practice of any particular faith or religion.

… to prevent the use of creationist and other pseudo-scientific propaganda in Government-funded schools.

… to seperate church and state and create the United Kingdom a secular democracy.

… to Remove tax-exempt status for religions (granted such privilege) within the United Kingdom.

… to cease the creation of more faith schools, take existing public-funded faith schools from the control of religious bodies and convert them to unbiased schools for all.

… to refuse to reimburse the Church of England with public funds for repairs or maintenance to their own, private buildings.

Each petition includes more information about the exact nature of and reason for the petition. If you agree with the sentiment of the petition, please add your name to the list. If possible, to help increase the audience for these issues, please repost these in your own blogs, MySpace, LiveJournal, FaceBook, etc.

If, on the other hand, you have other petitions that you think I should take a look at, please add a comment to let me know.

Cheers.

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