If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. John 15:18
"In his newly-launched annual report, Ahmad Shaheed, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, wrote about the intersection of religion and gender equality.
He concluded that laws based in traditional morality, often religious in nature, should be repealed if they conflict with the opinions of human rights scholars and U.N. experts.
In order to enable these “self-understandings,” laws criminalizing abortion or various sexual behaviors would need to be overruled.
Shaheed noted that laws regarding abortion and homosexual behavior often arise from the application of religious teachings regarding the sanctity of life, the family, and sexual morality.
The special rapporteur cites “many feminists and human rights scholars” in arguing that “rules regulating the status of men and women, including in the appointment of clergy,” are not only religious, but political, and therefore “are a concern for the State and international human rights law.”
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"In his newly-launched annual report, Ahmad Shaheed, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, wrote about the intersection of religion and gender equality.
He concluded that laws based in traditional morality, often religious in nature, should be repealed if they conflict with the opinions of human rights scholars and U.N. experts.
In order to enable these “self-understandings,” laws criminalizing abortion or various sexual behaviors would need to be overruled.
Shaheed noted that laws regarding abortion and homosexual behavior often arise from the application of religious teachings regarding the sanctity of life, the family, and sexual morality.
The special rapporteur cites “many feminists and human rights scholars” in arguing that “rules regulating the status of men and women, including in the appointment of clergy,” are not only religious, but political, and therefore “are a concern for the State and international human rights law.”
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