British Humanist Association
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The British Humanist Association is an organisation of the United Kingdom which promotes Humanism. The BHA is committed to secularism, human rights, democracy, equality and mutual respect. It works for an open and inclusive society with freedom of belief and speech, and for an end to the privileged position of religion in law, education, broadcasting and wherever else it occurs.
The BHA is a member organisation of the International Humanist and Ethical Union. The official symbol of the BHA is the Happy Human.
IHEU's Minimum statement on Humanism
All member organisations of the IHEU are required by IHEU bylaw 5.1 to accept [link] the IHEU Minimum statement on Humanism:
"Humanism is a democratic and ethical life stance, which affirms that human beings have the right and responsibility to give meaning and shape to their own lives. It stands for the building of a more humane society through an ethic based on human and other natural values in the spirit of reason and free inquiry through human capabilities. It is not theistic, and it does not accept supernatural views of reality.''
Famous British Humanists
President
Temporary statement (life 2 months) - Distinguished Supporters (below) are now in the order of popularity of the last editor - this may well be changed by political supporters of those that find themselves further down than they would like, but for a while consider this as the best 'common humanist view' of the popular hierarcy of 'distinguished supporters list'.Distinguished Supporters
- Sir Ludovic Kennedy (3 November 1919 - )
- Tony Banks, Baron Stratford (8 April 1943 – 8 January 2006)
- Sir Arthur C. Clarke (16 December 1917 - )
- Jane Asher
- Sir Michael Atiyah OM FRS
- John Austin MP
- Lord Avebury
- Professor Simon Blackburn
- Baroness Blackstone
- Professor Colin Blakemore FRS
- Sir Thomas Blundell FRS
- Sir Hermann Bondi FRS
- Rt Hon Nick Brown MP
- Alan Brownjohn
- Sir Roy Calne FRS
- Michael Clapham MP
- Sir Kenneth Clucas
- Michael Connarty MP
- The Viscount Craigavon
- Professor Bernard Crick
- Professor Francis Crick
- Dr Helena Cronin
- Professor Richard Dawkins FRS
- Professor Sir Richard Doll CH OBE FRS
- Lord Dormand of Easington
- Lord Dubs
- Maureen Duffy
- Professor R I M Dunbar FBA
- Professor Lionel Elvin
- Sir Anthony Epstein CBE FRSE FRS
- The Viscount Falkland
- Sir Raymond Firth FBA
- Baroness Flather
- Professor Antony Flew
- Lord Flowers FRS
- Rt Hon Michael Foot
- Professor Frank Furedi
- Peter Goodfellow FRS
- Sir James Gowans CBE FRCP FRS
- Sir Francis Graham-Smith FRS
- Dr Anthony Grayling
- Mike Hall MP
- Professor John L Harper CBE FRS
- Lord Harrison
- Rt Hon The Lord Hattersley
- Dr James Hemming
- Professor Robert Hinde FRS
- Kelvin Hopkins MP
- Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
- Lord Hughes of Woodside
- Professor Hugh Huxley FRS
- Sir Alec Jeffreys FRS
- Lord Jenkins of Putney
- Professor Steve Jones (24 March 1944 - )
- Anish Kapoor
- Miriam Karlin
- Randal Keynes OBE
- Glenys Kinnock MEP
- Sir Hans Kornberg FRS
- Sir Harold Kroto FRS
- Ashok Kumar MP
- Stewart Lee
- Baroness Lestor
- Sir Michael Levey LVO FBA FRSL
- Ken Livingstone
- Lord McCarthy
- Professor Sheila A M McClean
- Ian McEwan
- Lord McIntosh of Haringay
- Sir John Maddox
- Alice Mahon MP
- Dr Michael Majerus
- Bob Marshall-Andrews QC MP
- Professor John Maynard Smith FRS
- Jonathan Meades
- George Melly
- Warren Mitchell
- Lord Monkswell
- Julie Morgan MP
- Rt Hon Rhodri Morgan MP
- Professor Richard Norman
- Martin O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of Clackmannan
- Professor Sir Roger Penrose FRS (8 August 1931 - )
- Lord Peston
- Colin Pickthall
- Lord Porter of Luddenham
- Terry Pratchett (19 October 1946 - )
- Philip Pullman CBE
- Claire Rayner OBE
- Professor Steven Rose
- Michael Rubenstein
- Salman Rushdie (19 June 1947 - )
- Bertrand Russell FRS (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970)
- Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell
- Brian Sedgemore MP
- Sir David Smith FRS FRSE
- Dr Harry Stopes-Roe
- Sir Kenneth Stuart FRCP
- Sir John Sulston
- Laurie Taylor
- Sir Keith Thomas BA
- Polly Toynbee
- Baroness Turner of Camden
- Dennis Turner
- Sir Peter Ustinov CBE FRSL
- Sir David Weatherall FRS
- Baroness Whitaker
- Jane Wynne Willson
- Professor Lewis Wolpert CBE FRS
- Graham Allen MP (11 January 1953 - )
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