Religion is a private matter
The Initiative Religion is a Private Matter ( RIP ) is a secular association founded in 2010 and based in Vienna . The "Initiative for the unbundling of state and religion", according to his own account, was headed from June 21, 2011 by the physicist Heinz Oberhummer . Advertisements, complaints and legal remedies are the main features of the association's activity. The initiative's actions include:
- supporting a lawsuit against crosses and religious education in public kindergartens in Lower Austria, the lawsuit received support from Daniela Musiol from the Greens and failed in court.
- the complaint against the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation because of an allegedly attempted pro-Christian language regulation in connection with reporting on the 2011 attacks in Norway . After stage wins in front of KommAustria and the Federal Communications Senate , they failed before the Constitutional Court.
- the unsuccessful attempt to prevent the redevelopment of the Vienna Pope's Cross in 2011 by filing a complaint because of the alleged lack of building permits.
- the attempt, supported by the Young Liberals Austria , to abolish the tax deductibility of the church contribution . The Constitutional Court decided twice on the matter and confirmed the admissibility of the deductibility in each case.
- the attempt to achieve a decoupling of ethics instruction from religious instruction . For this purpose, the association coordinates the platform Ethics for ALL, which is supported by Gerhard Streminger , the Green Member of the National Council Harald Walser , the Homosexual Initiative ( HOSI ) Vienna, the SPÖ member Elisabeth Blanik , the Austrian Children's Friends and the Action Critical Schoolchildren . The initiative failed due to resistance from the ÖVP and a lack of budget funds.
- the attempt to found the association “Last Help - Association for Self-Determined Dying”, which was prohibited by the police in January 2014 due to the legal prohibition of euthanasia .
Gernot Bauer put this in the news magazine profil found that RIP in his legal "crusade against authorities, offices and courts ... Series defeats" suffered had, the club agiere at the "border Querulanz ".
RIP is one of the supporting associations of the Association of Central Council of Non-denominationalists .
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Footnotes
- ↑ New offensive against crucifixes . In: Austria . August 20, 2010
- ^ Cross debate: opponents receive support from the Greens . In: ORF . March 24, 2011
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- ↑ a b c d Gernot Bauer : The anti-clerical initiative "Religion is a private matter" targets the judiciary and judges. profile , November 28, 2014, accessed November 16, 2017 .
- ^ Michael Matzenberger: Complaint against the renovation of the Pope's cross in Vienna . In: The Standard . 5th December 2011
- ↑ Pope's cross was blessed. In: wien.orf.at. June 16, 2012. Retrieved November 27, 2017 .
- ↑ Laicism Initiative: Discrimination in tax deductibility . In: ORF . June 14, 2012
- ↑ "Thinking instead of praying": Platform wants ethics for all students . In: The press . 19th September 2012
- ↑ Lisa Nimmervoll:Compulsory subject ethics instead of religion is "out of the question" for the ÖVP. In: The Standard . February 18, 2015