Aftenposten Norway, Norwegian news in English: “Norway’s Constitution requires that over half of the government cabinet are members of the state church - the Norwegian Helsinki Committee says this provision is a violation of human rights.
‘It cannot be so that one has to join a certain religious community in order to be a cabinet minister. Not if there is to be true religious freedom,’ NHC assistant secretary general Gunnar M. Karlsen told newspaper Dagsavisen.
Karlsen believes it is time to revise Norway’s Constitution.
Lawyer Nj�l H�stm�lingen at the Center for Human Rights at the University of Oslo agrees with this interpretation.
‘The Constitution’s paragraph 12 is in conflict with both the United Nations convention on civil and political rights and the European Council’s human rights convention,’ H�stm�lingen said.”
Norway’s provision would violate the United States Constitution, too. But I like it…
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