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Discrimination by German State Governments

In November of 1994, the Conference of Secretaries of the State Chancellery offices for all German states issued recommendations to Minister Presidents on Scientology. These recommendations include “education seminars” for district attorneys and judges on Scientology, the collection and exchange of information about Scientology among numerous federal and state government offices, the exchange of this information with established Churches and other “social groups” and the media to increase “enlightenment” about Scientology, and the request that Scientology be a subject in a European Minister Conference.⁹⁶

Baden-Württemberg

In September 1992, the Baden-Württemberg Parliament implemented comprehensive and discriminatory measures targeting the Scientology religion and its parishioners. These measures included requesting the government to:

withdraw the legal capacity of Scientology organizations;

initiate criminal investigations of the Church;

determine if adherence to the religion can be classified as a druglike addiction;

increase “enlightenment” about Scientology in schools, in governmental offices and in public;

prevent the economic “influence” of Scientology in coordination with Employers Associations, the Chambers for Industry Commerce and Trade;

continue to elicit the support of Unions, which have agreed to inform their members about the economic influence of Scientology and to counteract this influence through Union publications attacking membership in Scientology;

work out a complete list of other measures designed for the “reduction of Scientology activities.”⁹⁷

This discriminatory initiative was passed even though the resolution conceded that “A majority in the legal literature and the courts confirms” that Scientology must be classified as a religion.⁹⁸

Virtually identical discriminatory measures were discussed and adopted in the States of Saarland, Northrhine-Westfalia, Bremen and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.⁹⁹ All these resolutions exhort all strata of society to ostracize and boycott Scientologists and take action to stop the expansion of Scientology.

In June of 1993, the Baden-Württemberg government established a permanent Interministerial Working Group concerning “youth sects” -- the government’s pejorative for new religious movements. In September of 1994, this Working Group, composed of representatives from the Ministries of Justice, Economics, Interior, Social Affairs, and Culture, issued a 52 page report regarding its activities for the period June 1993-June 1994.¹⁰⁰

The September 1994 Report consists of a comprehensive action plan explicitly designed to stop the growth of the religion of Scientology and develop means to outlaw the practice of the religion.

This action plan includes comprehensive discriminatory measures to drive Scientology out of Baden-Württemberg.

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