This resolution will ensure the human right of freedom of belief. It will still allow for theocracies, so long as belief in the state religion is not mandatory. It also ensures non-discrimination in housing and employment on the basis of religion, with the cop-out of letting legitimate religious organizations discriminate.
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Freedom of Belief
Human Rights - significant
The General Assembly,
RECOGNIZING the role that religion and personal belief play in the culture of a people;
ACKNOWLEDGING the existence of state religions, and the possible justifications therefor;
FURTHER ACKNOWLEDGING the oppression of people of minority religions in theocratic and non-theocratic states;
DEFINING legitimate religion as a group of beliefs, practices, and ideologies to which a group is devoted, and which does not cause the death or injury of any person;
DEFINING a legitimate religious organization as an established, independant group whose principal purpose is the belief in and practice of a legitimate religion;
PROHIBITS member nations from restricting belief in, or practice of, any legitimate religion;
PROHIBITS member nations from barring the formation of legitimate religious organizations;
PROHIBITS member nations from persecuting, imprisoning, murdering, or discriminating against any person on the basis of that person's legitimate religion;
REQUIRES that member nations ensure legitimate religion is not a factor in the acquisition of housing or employment, unless it is being provided directly by a legitimate religious organization which has not been established by the state;
PROHIBITS member nations from requiring the belief in or practice of a certain religion, but
ALLOWS member nations to establish and maintain a state-sanctioned religion, unless prohibited by other World Assembly, international, or national law, provided that it does not prevent the nation's compliance with the rest of this resolution, and
ALLOWS member nations to make laws based on the beliefs of a specific legitimate religion, provided those laws do not conflict with the rest of this resolution.
