Its main efforts have concentrated on seeking to allow legal humanist weddings, which succeeded in 2005,[3] and to secularise state education.
In January 2001, the Society lodged a petition with the Scottish Parliament calling for the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 to be amended to allow legal humanist wedding ceremonies, alongside religious and civil ones.
The first legal humanist wedding took place at Edinburgh Zoo on 18 June 2005 between Karen Watts (from Ireland) and Martin Reijns (from the Netherlands).
[9] In 2013 the group, along with the Edinburgh Secular Society, started a campaign against religious representation on council education committees in Scotland.
[10] In 2016 the Society took a judicial review of the decision to not allow children and young people to opt out of compulsory religious observance in Scottish schools, after a UN Committee called for a change in practice in Scotland.