Neutrum
The Association for an Ideologically-Free State
Mailing address: P.O. Box 843, 00-950 Warszawa 1, Poland
tel./fax (48-89) 625 25 22
WWW: www.neutrum.eu.org
The NEUTRUM Association was established in September 1990. Our main goal
is to act for a non-ideological state, where the rights of every citizen are
fully recognised and protected regardless of someone's religion, ethnic origin,
gender, sexual orientation, etc. We are deeply convinced that the principle of
the equality under the law can be implemented only in the state where:
- no ideology and religion are discriminated or privileged,
- no legal regulations are motivated only by religion,
- religious symbols and ceremonials do not take place in the state institutions,
- the state education system is secular.
Recognising that all these principles mentioned above are guarantees of
human and civil rights, the Association opposes all the cases where ideological
neutrality is infringed. We think the increasing influence of the Catholic
Church on the legislative authorities as well as on the state institutions in
Poland is a prove of such violation. We are against violating the rule of
separation of the church from state and against the attempts of removing the
corresponding formula from the constitution. Some of the most important examples
of favouring the Catholic religious doctrine which we are opposing are:
- government-supported religious classes in public schools,
- the Mass Media Act obliging the TV and radio stations to respect the Christian Values,
- the anti-abortion law depriving women on their motherhood,
- the Ministry of Education activities against the sexual education programmes and against AIDS prevention campaign.
The main forms of our activity are following:
- intervening with authorities and state institutions,
- organising street actions (demonstrations, collecting of signatures),
- influencing politics and activists,
- co-operation with organisations having similar goals,
- producing a newsletter,
- building a data base on the church and state relations,
The Association for a Non-Ideological State consists of over 500 members acting
mostly in big cities. The biggest centres are in Warsaw, Cracow, Szczecin, Poznań,
Olsztyn and Łódź. The activity of our association is possible thanks to the
grants from the German Marshall Fund of the United States, PHARE, the volunteer
work, membership fees and financial help of people supporting the idea of
pluralistic society and of ideologically-free state. See older.. 
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