the deputy Parliamentary ombudsman is, that all the school students referred to the common christmas feast can not organize a church. Alignment also applies if the provider is an alternative christmas celebration for those who do not experience the church as their own.

the Deputy ombudsman Pasi Pölönen a solution for the criterion states that the school christmas party is part of the instruction, which will thus be according to the law religious and ideological level of commitment of the non.

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Yle got a solution to be viewed. A key criterion is according to the ombudsman, the fact that all pupils within the context of the christmas party is about the school curriculum assimilated from the content of teaching. It is so different than the traditional school christmas church participation.

Now, the current situation differs in a way that it hasn’t been a single school included in the programme used the service, but the school, the common, basic teaching, article 3, paragraph 5, under the graduation party of the replacement in the church, arranged the party, the resolution states.

the Solution regroup the basic education section in addition to, inter alia, equality and freedom of religion clauses.

“a Good and expected decision”

the solution is the answer to the complaint which is made irreligious by Finland ry. Complaints were made of the three schools.

the president of the Association Kaisa Robbins is completed satisfied.

– a Good decision, and the expected. Avilta has previously obtained similar decisions not common to all school celebrations, such as christmas celebration, can be held in the church. Now this was the supreme legal supervision of the solution, Robbins said.

the New solution is the Robbins, the fact that the church building is defined as a place of problematic school teaching programme of events to organise.

Pölönen justifies this, inter alia, thus: “the Church is precisely the service delivery to the intended place (the church act 14 referred to in chapter ecclesiastical building) and conveys this in itself religious meanings”.

the deputy ombudsman, the solution should also include school principals.

Some of the principal according to the school party was presented, inter alia, the christmas gospel, the parish priest had spoken, and had sung a few hymns. The principal also stressed that anyone had been pressured to participate.

“Gone too far”

mps Markus Salmon (kesk.) assess the deputy ombudsman’s decision was the constitutional law committee’s position to the contrary.

the Salmon’s constitutional law committee member. He refers to the constitutional law committee’s statement in 2014, when it ruled unanimously that, for example, the celebration of the holy celebrations related to the worship or other similar religious practice, the events are religion and freedom of conscience in terms of the problem

– education of the party organization of the church premises does not make also the opportunity to automatically religious, Salmon more.

Markus Salmon feels that this is not only a social, also principled.

– minority status is a consideration in the decision process, but sometimes there comes a situation when it is clearly to say that we go too far. This is one of those situations.

– Finnish christian tradition belong to the schools christmas party, held them in churches or schools. This must be also in the future.

Kaisa Robbins justify the limp. He stressed that the heart of winter and the winter solstice celebration was originally a pagan celebration.

I’ve made these complaints many, and it surprises me how highly educated people justify it by the claim that christmas is a christian festival. For christians it is the birth of Jesus.

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