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Church loses prominence in portuguese state protocol
    #5645849 - 05/18/06 11:02 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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Next week, the portuguese socialist party is going to present at the Parliament, the project to modify state protocol, adjusting it to the Constitution and to its principle of separation between the State and the Church.

In accordance with the socialist member of the house of representatives Vera Jardim, what's being presented is "an update of what exists for more than 20 years". The main author of the current Law of Religious Freedom, approved in 2000, did not want to disclose which changes will be made, he guaranteed however, that they're not going "to put everything upside down".

Regarding the Constitution, Vera Jardim stated that " in state protocol, there must not be a place for churches. There is a law separating powers in the Portuguese State ". In this regard, "it is necessary to adjust state protocol".

According to this news reported by the "Expresso" newspaper, the socialist proposal is going to exclude the cardinal-patriarch from places of honor in official ceremonies.

Fernando Rosas, from the "left block" party, said this alteration should have been done a long time ago, because the rules which constitute the protocol "are still an inheritance of the New State" (old fascist regime). On the other hand, since the Law of Religious Freedom was approved in 2001, it excludes the presence of hierarchical individuals of any religion in official ceremonies, failing to do so, would be illegal".

The bishops, making their presence in the ceremonies of the international peregrination to Fátima, had devaluated these alterations. The bishop of Porto, D. Armindo Lopes Coelho said : "To us, it makes life much easier if we lose such prominence place", because "we no longer need to reserve this or that day" for an event. He still affirmed that "there's no other religious creed with our dimension, but for the sake of equality" the religious absence corresponds "to the logics of the Law of Religious Freedom.




Now, what do you think ? Should, or should not, the church be a part of state protocol ?
Personally, i feel much better knowing that state and church affairs are two different things. This puts an end to 800 years of obvious religious influence, i just hope the "not-so-obvious" takes the same direction.

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