Humanist Weddings

[pyrite]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-12517893

Humanist weddings becoming increasingly popular in Scotland

[Judee]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-12517893

Humanist weddings becoming increasingly popular in Scotland

Thanks pyrite. Your post forced me to read up on humanism, and that's always a good thing! And good for the Scots I say!

Humanism (capital 'H', no adjective such as "secular")[56] is a comprehensive life stance that upholds human reason, ethics, and justice, and rejects supernaturalism, pseudoscience, and superstition. Many Humanists derive their morals from a philosophy of Ethical naturalism, and some acknowledge a science of morality.

The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) is the world union of more than 100 Humanist, rationalist, secular, ethical culture, and freethought organizations in more than 40 countries. The Happy Human is the official symbol of the IHEU as well as being regarded as a universally recognised symbol for those who call themselves Humanists (as opposed to "humanists"). In 2002, the IHEU General Assembly unanimously adopted the Amsterdam Declaration 2002 which represents the official defining statement of World Humanism.[57]

All member organisations of the IHEU are required by IHEU bylaw 5.1[58] to accept 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.