In defense of secularism!
Before the visit to Barcelona in a few days, the head of the Catholic Church, we make public our commitment in defense of secularism, a set of values \u200b\u200bthat include freedom of conscience, individual autonomy, separation between the state and the churches of any sign, and the pursuit of justice and the common good of all citizens. Secularism is a relationship framework that allows human beings to live in a more just society based on peaceful coexistence and mutual respect.
However, some of these values \u200b\u200bare still a utopia in our country because it survive privileges that favor some more than others, some beliefs that promote certain interests over the general. This is particularly worrisome when we consider that these ideas also shape the particular world of each other, participate actively and decisively in the political debate to define the model of society we want for everyone, so that this debate is distorted because some organizations have considerable power through illegitimate benefits they get from their privileged relationship with the state.
Many laws of our system law are designed to support religion and religious denominations, but one in particular, or to put it more properly a set of laws that are specifically designed to favor the Catholic Church. The agreements between the English State and the Holy See from 1976 to 1979, called the Concordat agreed in the aftermath of a dying Franco regime to the Vatican State, absolutist and theocratic, were made exclusively for shielding the privileges of the Catholic Church and to avoid difficult political transition to democracy.
These international covenants have become a hindrance in the past to be overcome, because even today determine health freedoms and democracy we want for our country, among other things serve to justify the financing of private beliefs, to promote ideological indoctrination in schools, which should be secular, to conceal offenders charged pedophilia and in the midst of a crisis hits wild families of our workers, to pay lavish expenses as those that entail the visit of the supreme leader of Catholics in our country.
These privileges must end now. It is time to reverse this situation and call loudly and firmly to this injustice. Therefore we demand: That
* Religious beliefs are no longer publicly funded.
* To remove the tax allocation to the Catholic Church through the income tax.
* That schools are no longer used as a platform for ministry. * What religions
stop imposing their moral prejudices the entire society.
* That the clergy pedophiles and their accomplices are brought to justice.
* That the Church no longer hinder the use of condoms to prevent the spread of AIDS.
* Boys and girls are protected against superstition and irrationality.
* That the State fails to promote the charity at the expense of social justice.
* The conduct and public places cease to be chaired by religious symbols.
* That public representatives stop favoring religious groups.
* To respect the right of all people to live according to their sex.
* To recognize the right of women to decide their own body.
* that apostasy is a right recognized by law.
for the repeal of the agreements between the English State and the Holy See!
For the separation of church and state!
In defense of secularism!
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