Blow to the lay state

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The political reformation threatens freedoms
Blow to the lay state
By: Carlos Damián December 16, 2011
Emilio Chuayffet: "bad faith” to ‘La Jornada’
México. - In an uneven session, the Chamber of Deputies endorsed yesterday, for majority and with the back of the political group of the PRI and PAN, a constitutional reformation that allows the realization of cult acts in public spaces without giving warnings to the corresponding authority, what includes the diffusion of religious ceremonies in massive means of communication and it even opens the possibility that the clerical organizations are radio and television concessionaries.
The reformation is sustained in asseverations as false as that it won't allow the public realization of religious ceremonies is an attack “to the belief freedom” and it implies that the Mexican State “is anticlerical by definition". The standing out is unfounded because in any point of the legislation in vigor you stable that the authorities have capacity to outlaw or to pursue to any credo: on the contrary, the article 24 of the constitution orders: "The congress cannot dictate laws that settle down or prohibit religion some", as long as the 130, although it consecrates the institutional principle of the separation between Churches and the State, it orders a second not to intervene in the internal life of the churches.
The ‘bad milk’ of Chuayffet
The president of the Chamber of Deputies, Emilio Chuayffet Chemor, (ECC), he said before deputies of the PRD and PT that the constitutional reformation 24 doesn't imply the end of lay State. "That is only the bad faith of the journalists of ‘La Jornada’. I don't wish them who they are, but you know them", he affirmed on yesterday's ordinary meeting. (12/15/11). He adds that the officials’ documents will be approved by absolute majority: otherwise, they will be had for waste". Chuayffet attributed the accusation that they made deputies of the PT on it is closed the bolt with key prematurely, it intent to say that the reporters don't read. "There are a people there of a newspaper I won't say which that doesn't read. And if they read, they always make trying to find errors. "They read the law of National security in the list of those that pre-included can be declared because the time was already conquered to rule. That is a thing, it means that the time was already conquered to discuss it and of there they thought: 'Gotcha! Then they go it to discuss'. What atrocity! It is necessary to know how to read, it is necessary to understand to what they say the documents of the legislative Chamber so that one is not able to write atrocities and to disorient to the public opinion."

End to the lay state
In any event, the black hand of the Catholic hierarchy of the country and of a scarce suspicion of concealment electoral of the PRI and PAN is what seems to be behind the approval legislative on Thursday, (December 15, 2011); it is a serious lack of the legislators' discernment that they endorsed the one mentioned amendment, when sustaining that, in favor of the cult freedom, the public space should not be regulated in its laity, as long as scenario of the daily social interaction, it is subjected by definition to the regulation of the State; this in turn, it should fix the conditions of their collective use and singular of the public space, to effect of guaranteeing their accessibility to all the citizens, and it includes it, certainly to maintain it to the margin of any bias confessional.

It doesn't exist, because anticlerical desire some in the claim that the state institutions delimit the realization from the religious acts to the temples, but the recognition of the necessity of preserving a neuter environment independently for all the people of their credo. On the other hand, it is preoccupant that the promoters of the one mentioned reformation compare the limitations to the diffusion of religious activities in massive means with a “previous censorship” and that it is sought, with base in it, to give radio and television concessions to the religious organizations.

The argument contrasts with the discriminatory treatment that the own authority has given in that ambit to federative entities, municipalities, universities, communities, unions and other forms of social organization, some of which have bigger legal and social transcendence that any religious, included instance the Catholic Church, and that they would have that it turns beneficiaries, before these, of an eventual liberalization of the concessions of electronic means. On the other hand, an effect possible of the reformation endorsed yesterday is the placement of television and broadcasts frequencies in hands of the religious institutions that have more economic resources, and it could increase it the imbalance that persists in favor of those organizations.

It is questionable the asseveration that with these modifications it is recognized: "the implicit right in it guides your of the parents on the children to teach them the religion that they profess", this that the legislators said teaches their scarce imagination and they abuse of the intelligence from the nation to which they represent. What sits down a disastrous precedent and a considerable risk for the validity of other precepts, as the lay character of the public education seated in the article third of the Great Letter.
In sum, the approval of the referred reformation won't derive in a freer society, like its instigators affirm: on the contrary, and given the correlation of existent forces between police authorities and the powers factices and certainly included the Church; of this it fits to suppose that it would be translated, if it found authentication in the Senate, in a more intolerant society, in a political power more bundle of hands before the Catholic clergy in a multiplication of the capacity of blackmail of the ecclesiastical hierarchies and in a weakly of the lay character. (La Jornada, editorial, p.p. 5 - 8, December 16, 2011).