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What are Humanist weddings like?
Video of an outdoor Humanist wedding on a sunny summer day in Ireland
4th time one of my Humanist weddings on OneFabDay
Yup, it’s the fourth time one of my Humanist wedding ceremonies has featured on One Fab Day. You can see selected pictures from it (and lots more by clicking on my Pinterest board) or by clicking on the OneFabDay link.
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Joe Armstong on the Joe Finnegan Show on Shannonside Northernsound Radio 24 Aug 2016
Click this link to a short interview I did about Humanist weddings, naming ceremonies and funerals on the Joe Finnegan Show on Shannonsid Northernsound Radio on 24 August 2016
Third time one of my Humanist weddings featured on One Fab Day!
Nice pictures can be found on my Pinterest photos and also by clicking here Peggy and Michael’s Humanist wedding conducted by Joe Armstrong at Mount Druid. It’s the third time one of my Humanist weddings has been featured on One Fab Day. They do a great job!
Mark ‘No Religion’ on Census 2016 to help end discrimination
CSO statistics on Humanist marriages 2015
The Central Statistics Office has released fascinating statistics on marriages taking place during 2015.
It shows that marriages conducted by celebrants/solemnisers accredited by the Humanist Association of Ireland accounted for more than five per cent of all marriages. The report states that ‘In recent years the Humanist Association has also risen in popularity with 1,264 (5.7%) of marriages in 2015.’
August is the most popular month for marriage. ‘In 2015, 13.3% (or 2,927) of marriages occurred in August. Over a quarter (26.5%) of all marriages took place in the months of July and August.’
Friday and Saturday are the most popular days of the week to get married with 69.2% of marriages being conducted on those days.
Friday 31st July and Saturday 1st August were the most popular wedding dates in 2015 with 276 (over 1%) marriages taking place on each. Then came Friday 4th September, with 248 (over 1%) marriages. Other highly desirable dates were New Years Eve, Saturday 30th May and Friday 7th of August, each of which saw 247 marriages taking place.
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Humanist Naming Ceremonies
Naming ceremonies are becoming more popular for people who choose not to have their children baptized. Such parents tend to be commendable adults of integrity, conscious as they are that it is more important to teach their children to be authentic and true to themselves than to jump a queue for a school place merely because their child is baptized. And until the Irish people and an Irish Government changes the discrimination that exists against unbaptized children, these parents should be applauded for their courage, integrity and leadership.
Demand for naming ceremonies is increasing as parents realize that they can formally welcome their child into their families, circles of friends and the wider human community without having to initiate their baby into ill-founded beliefs about deities and gods.
You can read some feedback from a recent baby naming ceremony that I conducted here.
And I’ve started a new Pinterest board on Humanist Naming Ceremonies here.
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Please tick the ‘No religion’ box in the Census on 24 April
Please tick the ‘No religion’ box the Census on 24 April. By doing this, legislators will have to accept, more quickly, that:
- a child needing a baptismal certificate to get into their local, State-funded school is discrimination on the grounds of religion