| Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe. —Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason |
IHEU corrects UN Human Rights Council November 4, 2007
Posted by Rastaban in : Atheist Culture, Bush Wars, Civil Unliberties, State & Church , 1 comment so farThe International Humanist and Ethical Union monthly news email just came. Among their recent activities they have endorsed a letter sent by Diana Brown of the World Population Foundation to the U.N. Human Rights Council objecting to their resolution (also brought to the UN General Assembly) against the “defamation of religion”.
The problem is that the U.N. Human Rights Council’s wording is so broad that it condemns not just biases against people of various religious traditions, but any “defamation” of the content of those religious traditions. Instead of defending, this betrays human rights. (more…)
