NSS: Rights of non-believers being compromised by growth of religious power-seeking
Posted by Margaret
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Friday, Nov 30, 2007
Europeans who have no religion are increasing in number but are becoming increasingly disadvantaged in the political process. This was the claim by the National Secular Society at a meeting in the European Parliament on “Religion and Politics in the New Europe” sponsored by Catholics for Choice.
Keith Porteous Wood, Executive Director of the National Secular Society said: “The majority of the EU population are either non-religious or do not actively practise any religion and they are being betrayed because increasingly strident religious influence on moral matters in EU institutions.”
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