Post by Markanite on Sept 4, 2017 13:06:36 GMT -5
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GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION AT VOTE
Ending Religious Persecution
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.
Category: Human Rights| Area of Effect: Significant | Proposed by:States of Glory WA Office
Ending Religious Persecution
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.
Category: Human Rights| Area of Effect: Significant | Proposed by:States of Glory WA Office
The World Assembly,
NOTING the large number of member states in which religion dominates public life,
BELIEVING that freedom of religion necessarily requires freedom from religion,
CONCERNED that non-religious individuals may be pressured to join a particular religion or face persecution,
WISHING to put an end to these injustices,
HEREBY:
1.DEFINES a religious belief, for the purposes of this resolution, as an ideology or any part of an ideology that dictates behaviours, practices and morals on its believers for the purposes of spiritual enlightenment,
2.DEFINES a religious ritual, for the purposes of this resolution, as an act that is performed on the basis that such an act is required or encouraged by an individual's religious belief,
3.DEFINES a religious festival, for the purposes of this resolution, as a time of importance that is celebrated routinely on the basis that such a celebration is required or encouraged by an individual's religious belief,
4.DECLARES that for the purposes of present and future international legislation and of causing massive headaches, politely begging member states to take action shall be considered equivalent to requiring them to take action,
5.POLITELY BEGS member states to respect an individual's right not to hold a religious belief,
6.POLITELY BEGS member states to refrain from forcing individuals to perform a particular religious ritual or to celebrate a particular religious festival unless doing so serves a separate, reasonable and compelling secular purpose,
7.POLITELY BEGS member states not to discriminate against individuals purely on the basis of their lack of religious belief without a reasonable and compelling justification that abides by the principles laid out in the preamble and by prior unrepealed legislation,
8.AFFIRMS the right of member states to mandate religious education in state-run educational centres as long as such education is not used as a vehicle to promote, endorse or degrade religious beliefs or a lack of religious belief,
9.AFFIRMS the right of member states to designate religious festivals as national holidays,
10.AFFIRMS the right of member states to establish an official religion, so long as the mandates of this resolution and prior unrepealed legislation are followed.
