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Change Murcia recalled today that the motion presented in Parliament tomorrow to promote reflection on secularism in City Hall has already been approved in a dozen municipalities in Spain, as Gijon, Rivas-Vaciamadrid or Mieres, at the request of candidates confluence or the Socialist Party itself.
Councilman municipalist training Sergio Ramos explained in a press conference accompanied by the coordinator of the territorial group of Lay Europe in Murcia, Antonio Pagan, that the motion is not to "prohibit or limit or prejudice" to Easter only make the city a more "secular" institution that respects all beliefs.
According to Ramos, "for nothing it is a violation of the right to religious freedom" but is open a "thorough discussion" about the need to separate church and state in compliance with the Constitution, which states that "no religion shall have a state character", while respecting the freedoms of individuals.
The mayor has expressed its rejection of the government cede ground or facilities to private entities such as the Catholic University San Antonio of Murcia (UCAM), which received in 2005 more than 130,000 square meters of land by the municipality, or the brotherhood of 'the Coloraos', which was a part of the public school of Carmen relented.
In that sense, he has also criticized the proposal Murciano Health Service for students of the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Murcia only have the Arrixaca as hospital linked exclusively to carry out their practices, sharing Morales Meseguer and Queen Sofia UCAM students.
It has also indicated that their training is also against the mayor or members of the government team, representing all citizens regardless of their beliefs, "lead" the religious acts.
"We feel very good that they do as citizens and that everyone has the belief he wants, but not to spearhead acts as a public charge."
Regarding convened by the Council of Guilds of Murcia tomorrow at 17 pm in front of City Hall, concentration Ramos has maintained that he found it "good" that any collective visit the "home for all" referring to the Consistory, and I can intervene in the municipal plenary for political groups to hear their claims.
For his part, Antonio Pagan explained that this motion, filed a proposal from the Secular Europe association, is "a leap in the functioning of society" and "democratic progress over the freedoms of every human being", while he pointed out that secularism "is not for nothing anticlerical" but "a meeting that seeks neutrality in the spectrum of religious faiths".
Asked whether Secular Europe has organized a "counter-demonstration" to the call of the council, Pagan has said that "in no case" because from its association freedom of conscience and thought of human beings are respected. "
In addition, he recalled the words of Pope Francis in Brazil in 2013, in which he said "peaceful coexistence between different religions is benefiting from the secular state, which, without assuming as own any religious position, respects and values presence of the religious factor in society ".
Source: Cambiemos Murcia
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