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A new poll commissioned by the British Humanist Association (BHA) has provided fresh evidence that the census question is fatally flawed for its intended purpose of planning public services.
When asked the census question ‘What is your religion?’, 61% of people in England and Wales ticked a religious box (53.48% Christian and 7.22% other) while 39% ticked ‘No religion’.

But when asked ‘Are you religious?’...

Billboards carry original message, ‘If you’re not religious, for God’s sake say so.’ As census forms begin arriving on people’s doorsteps in London, two billboards advertising the British Humanist Association’s (BHA’s) Census Campaign are being unveiled.  Bearing the slogan ‘If you’re not religious, for God’s sake say so’, which encountered censorship elsewhere, the billboard outlines a number of ways in which...

Three posters planned for display at railway stations as part of The Census Campaign have been refused by companies owning the advertising space, who viewed them as too likely to cause offence.
You can view the images at www.humanism.org.uk/census-adverts

Two reasons were given by owners of the space: they were concerned that the use of the phrase ‘for God’s sake’...

From today, posters bearing the slogan ‘If you’re not religious, for God’s sake say so’ should have been appearing on buses in major cities across England and Wales. But this latest initiative in the British Humanist Association’s (BHA’s) Census Campaign has been prevented on advice from the Committee of Advertising Practice that it had the potential to cause ‘widespread’ and ‘serious’ offence.