Atheist Ireland campaigns for secular public administration, including in the following areas:
Ensure that neither the Government, nor any State institutions, nor any State-funded bodies, give preferential treatment or access to any person or organisation or category of people, on the basis of their religion or belief.
Remove the traditional privileges that religious bodies have in education and healthcare service provision and decision-making.
Remove the requirement for persons in court to choose between a religious or nonreligious oath, and replace these with a single neutral declaration that reveals no information about the person’s religious beliefs.
End the prayer that starts each parliamentary day which asks the Christian God to direct every action, word and work of our parliamentarians.
Ensure that all aspects of Government are conducted consistently with the State’s international obligations on human and civil and other personal human rights.
Stop treating the Holy See/Vatican as a State. It is the headquarters of a world religion, and it does not have the legal attributes of a real State.
Remove the requirement for persons in court to choose between a religious or nonreligious oath, and replace these with a single neutral declaration that reveals no information about the person’s religious beliefs.
Stop State payments to religious chaplains, who are nominated by religious authorities, in schools, hospitals, the army and other institutions.
End RTE’s daily prime-time broadcasting of the Angelus and RTE’s insistence that everyone should pause for reflection under a Catholic call to prayer.
We campaign to remove religious privileges from public administration, ensuring state neutrality in education, healthcare, courts, parliament, broadcasting, and international relations, and ending state-funded religious chaplaincies.
