Slovakia’s New Religious Registration Law is a Step in the Wrong Direction
"The new religious registration law is a step in the wrong direction because individual and collective religious freedom is a central pillar of any free and democratic society and should not be compromised by arbitrary discrimination. Muslims and other religious groups with fewer members who ar...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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George Fox University
2017
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Occasional papers on religion in Eastern Europe
Year: 2017, Volume: 37, Issue: 3, Pages: 34-38 |
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| Summary: | "The new religious registration law is a step in the wrong direction because individual and collective religious freedom is a central pillar of any free and democratic society and should not be compromised by arbitrary discrimination. Muslims and other religious groups with fewer members who are prevented from registering cannot fully exercise their religious freedom (the "forum externum" aspect), a fact that should not leave indifferent democratically-minded people of all faiths and none. Slovakia should change its anachronistic and unfair system of differentiating between registered (privileged) and non-registered (discriminated) religious groups, especially when this differentiation is based on an arbitrary and unrealistic 50,000 member requirement, and it should also change the model of financing churches and religious societies because the two are inextricably linked." |
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| ISSN: | 2693-2148 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Occasional papers on religion in Eastern Europe
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