The Secular Party of Australia believes in personal freedom

We stand for:

• A woman's right to choose an abortion
• Voluntary euthanasia
• The right to die
• Embryonic stem cell research
• Same-sex marriage

We stand against:

• Censorship
• Religious indoctrination of minors
• Counter-productive "anti-terror" restrictions on civil liberties

Religious values have an unwarranted tendency to intrude into moral affairs. Religious people often claim the right to prevent others from engaging in harmless consensual activity, merely because their own religious preconceptions are offended. We oppose such arrogant intrusion. We believe in equality - in all respects.

Religious values also presume, again on the basis of misconceived dogma, to prevent scientific research that benefits all humanity. We oppose such detrimental interference, often based on religious notions of morality, which have no objective basis.

The Secular Party believes that children should be protected from harmful influences. They should be able, via education, to develop to their full potential as human beings, with the capacity for freedom of thought unimpaired by religious biases. We are opposed to religious indoctrination in education, including via the wearing of religious attire in schools.

A major problem with the religiously inspired “war on terror” is that it is likely to make the problem of terrorism worse. The restrictions on freedom of speech and association that have been imposed in this cause will merely result in greater alienation and hence resort to covert activities. The Secular Party believes in the free expression of religious views, so that the often venal and sinister nature of many such views should be more readily apparent.

"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world." Richard Dawkins

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