Inclusion of RE in national curriculum welcomed.
An RE teacher. (Photo: RE Today)The government is planning on including Religious Education (RE) in the new national curriculum after key stakeholders reached an “unprecedented” consensus on the subject.
Previously, the content of RE classes was decided at the local level. Under the new proposals, all schools would have to teach the content of the curriculum, but would be free to expand on it in their own way.
The intention behind the plan is both to improve social cohesion and to bring an end to the “postcode lottery” of RE provision.
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said: “With so much focus on what divides us – and race and religion so often at the heart of that division – equipping young people with the knowledge, understanding and values that religious education teaches could hardly be more important.”
Despite being a popular subject among students at GCSE level, the country has a shortage of specialist RE teachers. Many RE teachers in fact specialise in a different area and teach RE as a secondary subject.
This has led to concerns that in some areas of the country RE teaching is not up to standard or is done as a box ticking exercise.
The news that RE would be included in the national curriculum was welcomed by the National Association of Teachers of Religious Education (NATRE) and the RE Council.
Katie Freeman, Chair of NATRE, said, “We welcome this historic consensus and most importantly the collaboration and dialogue that has taken place amongst all involved in the process.
"Placing RE in the National Curriculum will put it on an equal footing with other subjects, end the ‘postcode lottery’ of provision and ensure all students receive access to high-quality RE.”
Sarah Lane Cawte, Chair of the RE Council of England and Wales, welcomed "the Secretary of State’s recognition of the unprecedented consensus across religious and non-religious communities, educators and professional bodies".
"A National Curriculum for RE will ensure every child, in every school, receives their entitlement to high quality religious education – in both religious and non-religious traditions – that is academically rigorous and personally inspiring," she said.
This past weekend, a part-time conductor in Chattanooga, Tennessee found out exactly how steep that price can be.
Jack Peterson had been working the Incline Railway — a historic attraction climbing Lookout Mountain that’s been running for more than a century — when he picked up the microphone on Independence Day and did something apparently unforgivable. He wished his passengers a happy Fourth of July and told them they were riding through the greatest country on the planet.
From Fox News:
“To the very, very few Americans in here, happy Independence Day. To the rest of you, welcome to the greatest country on the face of the planet, and if you disagree, you can leave.”
A passenger told him to shut up, and another filmed it for TikTok, tagging the clip with “racism” and “xenophobia.” The Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority fired Peterson that same day.
CARTA’s chief of staff issued an apology “to the passengers who experienced this, and to everyone who has seen the video and felt its sting.” He then added — and I promise I’m not making this up — that CARTA “certainly agrees this is the greatest country on the face of the planet.”
Read that again. They fired a man for saying exactly what they claim to believe.
The passenger who posted the TikTok told Fox News he “did not intend to get Mr. Peterson fired” and hopes he gets his job back. His father, who filed the original complaint, said he was embarrassed — not by the country, mind you, but by a man celebrating it in front of his granddaughter.
Imagine having to explain to your grandchild why loving America is something to be ashamed of. What a lesson to pass down, right?
The hashtags told you everything you needed to know. Not “rude.” Not “unprofessional.” Racism. Xenophobia. That’s what loving your country out loud gets labeled now. I’ll let Peterson speak for himself:
“What has this country come to when someone can get fired on Independence Day for a patriotic statement?”
He’s since started a GoFundMe and received an outpouring of support, because most Americans heard what he said and nodded along. He said what they were already thinking.
This isn’t really about one conductor on a mountain railway. It’s about what we’re telling people when we punish someone for pride of country. Keep quiet. Don’t make waves. Love America if you must, but for heaven’s sake, don’t say it where anyone can hear you.
And if that’s the message, then what exactly are we celebrating on the Fourth? The most dangerous thing about Independence Day used to be fireworks. Now it’s a microphone.
Sources: Fox News, MSN.com, Daily Wire
Secular charity challenges UK Government’s evidence for LGBT conversion therapy ban | |
A secular sexual rights group challenged the reliability of evidence supporting UK Government plans for a ban on LGBT conversion practices, claiming the underlying data fails to justify the creation of a new criminal law. | |
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Britain, by common consent, is broken. What’s broken it, however, is a fundamental collapse of leadership at all levels.
Leadership sets goals, inspires others, takes tough decisions and holds itself accountable for its failures. It sets an example for others in society to follow in behaving with integrity, responsibility and trustfulness.
None of that is currently the case.
This has become a problem with mainstream politics and culture across the west. Coerced cultural conformity has become the norm among its elites. Statesmen — men and women of stature, who rise above pursuing their own advantage to serve the best interests of their nation, and who stick to their principles despite all setbacks and brickbats — are thin on the ground. Politicians tend to follow the herd, promise bread and circuses with jam tomorrow, and then blame the public for turning against them.
In Britain, this process of cultural demoralisation and decline is the most advanced. Despite this, by virtue of its historic cultural power — and the global reach of the English language — wherever Britain goes today, the rest of the west will eventually follow. So what’s happening there should provoke concern...
Tobias Bailey.
Dear All.
You’re being dragged from your home, prosecuted, and jailed for five years.
Your crime? Lovingly telling your confused teenager that they don’t need hormones or surgery to be whole.
I’m not paraphrasing Orwell; the UK Government unveiled draft legislation on June 25th, and it's being rushed through parliament on evidence that's collapsing before our eyes.
Ministers claim 75,000 to 93,000 people every year are victims of "conversion therapy" in England and Wales. It sounds terrifying. It's meant to. But look closer, and the whole case falls apart.
The Government spent £360,000 of your money on a national helpline, expecting up to 15,000 calls a year.
Out of 13,500 client records examined over three years, just 29 cases came through that helpline. Twenty-nine. Even Baroness Cash, a former commissioner at the Equality and Human Rights Commission, has branded the figures "remarkably weak."
Starmer knows that genuine abuse is already illegal and no new legislation is needed to prosecute such hideous crimes.
What this Bill actually does is aim the criminal justice system at parents, pastors, teachers, and therapists. It targets anyone who dares to gently question a child's demand to change gender.
Les, I know you can see this is persecution of free speech in the name of compassion.
If this Bill passes, the state will stand between you and your own child. Ordinary conversations at the kitchen table could become criminal evidence. Prayer could become prosecution.
I refuse to let that happen, but we cannot stop it without your support.
Time is short.
They are counting on your silence.
Let’s work together to prove Labour wrong.
With hope and determination,
Tobias Bailey
P.S. Parliament could vote before we have a chance to react. Sign now!
Here's the email I sent you earlier on this:
 A quiet conversation: a parent and child, a pastor and a believer, a counsellor and a client. Under the Government's new "conversion practices" Bill, talks like these could carry criminal risk. Abuse, coercion, and violence are already illegal. This Bill won't stop them. It will police speech, faith, and parenting instead. Tell the Office for Equality and Opportunity and Olivia Bailey MP to withdraw or amend it. Defend consensual conversation, not state-policed silence — sign today!
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Dear Les,
A father sits across from his frightened teenager. A pastor listens to a young man wrestling with his faith and his sexuality. A counsellor helps a confused child slow down before an irreversible ‘gender-affirming’ surgery. Ordinary conversations, the kind that happen in homes, churches, and clinics every single day.
Under the UK Government's new draft Bill, conversations like these could carry criminal risk.
Les, you could be punished for a consensual conversation.
On 25 June 2026, the Government published its long-promised Bill to ban so-called "conversion practices" across England and Wales.
We all agree that genuine abuse, coercion, and violence are wrong, and the good news is they are already illegal under existing law. So why a sweeping new offence?
It is because this Bill is not designed to stop abuse, but rather to control speech.
The danger lies in its vagueness. "Conversion practice" is notoriously hard to define, and several King's Counsel have warned that a ban could breach fundamental rights protected by the European Convention on Human Rights.
When the law is unclear, fear does the censoring: pastors stay silent, counsellors retreat to "affirmation only," and parents second-guess whether guiding their own child could land them in trouble.
Slowly, the freedom to hold a conversation will erode. The British State will force citizens to hold their tongue. Under Andy Burnham, this will get even worse!
Scotland faced this. The 2024 plans collapsed under legal and public pressure. The previous UK Government stalled on the very same grounds. The objections were real then. They are still real now.
Sign the petition now to defend free speech, faith, and family.
A Bill is never weaker, never more open to challenge, than at the draft stage.
Right now, during pre-legislative scrutiny, definitions can still be tightened, exemptions added, and dangerous overreach stripped out. Once the Bill moves into its full parliamentary stages, the core text hardens, and amendments become far harder to win.
In other words, the door is open today. It will not stay open for long.
The authoritarian Labour Government knows this. A well-funded, well-organised anti-freedom coalition is pushing hard for passage, backed by a Government manifesto pledge and the 2026 King's Speech. Silence now reads as consent.
One major development is that even pro-LGBT supporters have expressed scepticism about the Bill. Specifically, the harm this Bill may cause to people seeking help.
But pressure works. Early, organised opposition stalled this twice before. We can do it again if we move before the deadline closes.
Add your name today, before the consultation window shuts.
Imagine the country we wake up in if this Bill passes unamended. We had Stasi Starmergeddon, and it is set to get worse very quickly.
A parent urging caution before their child takes irreversible medical steps is labelled a criminal. A priest teaching his congregation what his faith has held for two thousand years, facing prosecution. A man who wants help reconciling his faith and his feelings, left with nowhere to turn, because everyone willing to talk to him is now too afraid.
Real protection from abuse already exists in law.
You may have gone through a terrible experience in your life, where you felt like there was nowhere to turn. You may have sat down desperately with a friend and let out your pain, your feelings, your worries.
If a person struggling with their sexuality or suffers from dysphoria were to ask for help, by law, they may be forced to be rejected. The freedom to speak, to pray, to counsel, and to parent without fear of a knock at the door are fundamental to our society.
Les, I can only imagine the repercussions.
There is a theme to this UK Government: stop free speech, reject the vulnerable and report your friends to the police.
We are calling on the Office for Equality and Opportunity and Olivia Bailey MP to withdraw this Bill, or at least amend it to fully protect parents, clergy, counsellors, and free speech.
Sign now. Share with your church, your family, your friends. Let's stop this Bill together.
Thank you for your support.
With determination,
Tobias Bailey and the entire CitizenGO team
P.S. It won’t be long until parents are cuffed for having a conversation with their child. Sign the petition now to protect freedom of speech!
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More information:
Jail Time and unlimited fines planned under conversion practices ban [BBC News]:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpwev2x4jw9o
Government push forward with conversion practices ban to protect LGBT+ people from abuse [UK Gov]:https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-pushes-forward-with-conversion-practices-ban-to-protect-lgbt-people-from-abuse
Gay and trans conversion therapy ban bill expected to be published [Sky News]:https://news.sky.com/story/gay-and-trans-conversion-therapy-ban-bill-expected-to-be-published-13556071
Parents ‘risk jail’ if they try to talk child out of trans treatment [The Telegraph (£)]:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/06/25/five-year-sentences-for-conversion-therapy-under-new-law/
Counselling framework for those with unwanted same-sex attraction rejected [Christian Today]:https://www.christiantoday.com/news/counselling-framework-for-those-with-unwanted-same-sex-attraction-rejected
Conversion Therapy had no place in society - so we are banning it [The Independent]:https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/conversion-therapy-ban-lgbt-rights-galop-anti-abuse-b3002795.html
Labour’s conversion therapy bill not fit for purpose [Unherd]:https://unherd.com/newsroom/labours-conversion-therapy-bill-is-not-fit-for-purpose/
Banning trans conversion therapy will cause far more harm than it prevents [The Telegraph (£)]:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/25/banning-trans-conversion-therapy-will-cause-far-more-harm/
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