Maowi wrote:'I've been thinking about replacing that wording; I was trying to be consistent with GAR #35 but because of the context it may be better to scratch that and approach it differently. Just as an idea, would you agree with changing the proposal to read as below?
Mandates that no religious organisation may deny, restrict, have a different set of criteria for, or delay the giving of a right, power, permission or service to a person based on a characteristic of theirs over which they have no control;
'The wording could of course be modified, but would the general idea work?'
OOCActually, even given the high probability of a GenSec ruling that reducing the scope of GAR#35’s “essential practical purposes” exemptions is allowed, I think that this wording would
still be illegal for Contradiction of that resolution. Reducing member nations’ right to define “essential practical purposes” in general is one thing, but explicitly banning the one situation which that resolution actually gives for an allowed use of the exemption is something else altogether: Member nations are explicitly recognised as having the right to allow discrimination on the basis of sex when staffing shelters for battered women, and some religious organisations might well be responsible for operating such shelters, so…
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And why
should the argument on which this proposal's restriction are based be applied only to ‘religious’ organisations, anyway? What if [for example] a
political organisation wishes to practice a discriminatory hiring policy? For example, what if a 'Women’s Rights Party' wants to insist that all of its officials must be women? Mightn't that policy cause "psychological harm" to some men who wanted to apply for those posts? Targeting
only religious groups is discriminatory in itself...