's friends the Union of Atheists and Freethinkers "sent me a statement which I reproduce below and subscribe in full:
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, the separation between church and state any sign, and the pursuit of justice and the common good of all citizens. Secularism relationship is a 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 to obtain an improper advantage that its privileged relationship with the state. Many laws of our legal system is 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 are now an obstacle from 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 the indoctrination ideological schools, which should be secular, to cover up for pedophile offenders charged and in the midst of a wild crisis hits the families of our workers, to pay lavish expenses as those that entail the supreme leader's visit of Catholics in our country. These privileges must end now. It is time to reverse this situation and ask for a voice tall and strong to this injustice.
Therefore we demand:
- that religious beliefs are no longer publicly funded.
- should be abolished tax allocation to the Catholic Church through the income tax.
- That schools are no longer used as a platform for ministry.
- that religions no longer impose their moral prejudices the entire society.
- that the pedophile priests and their accomplices are brought to justice.
- Let the Church stop impeding the use of condoms to prevent the spread of AIDS.
- that children are protected from superstition and irrationality.
- The State should stop promoting the charity at the expense of social justice.
- That the acts and public places are no longer headed by religious symbols.
- That the public representatives cease to favor religious groups.
- To respect the right of all people to live according to their sex.
- To recognize the right of women to decide on his 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!
press conference to report on the objectives and the development of the campaign, on Thursday, October 21, at 11 am in the local Espai Obert, street Violant d'Hongria 71 , Barcelona.
And the Jewish concentration Nov. 4 at the 19 h in the Plaza Sant Jaume de Barcelona.
EUiA • Scope of Alternative Youth Association • Prevention of Albaceteña aCritical theory, agnostics and LibrepensadoresAsociación Madrileña aCritical theory of Librepensadores and Cultural Association • Red • Association Memorandum for the Inmolats • Catalonia Valencian Association of Atheists Ateneo and freethinkers • Eclectic and Liberal Atheists id'Agnòstics • Atheists • aCritical theory of Catalonia and Andalusia Librepensadores aCritical theory and Republicanos • • Ca-Feminist Network of Women Cáceres • secular • Youth Centre of Catalonia • Catalonia • CJC CCOO Communist Youth Collective • • Trenches at the Collective Republican Committee of Lower Llobregat • December 1st-Shelf Unit NGO / AIDS Coordinator Catalonia • Gay • Lesbian • CNT-CNT-AIT Barcelona Catalonia • Europe • Laica Atea Initiative Foundation • Foundation • The Alternate Archdeacon Peter Green Left • Young • Secularism • Maulets League for the independence revolutionary youth • • Platform and Secular Progressive Movement Against Impunity • LAU-Section Aragon • Union of Atheists and Freethinkers.
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