The U.N. Human Bights Commission, now meeting here, adopted a clause defending the right of religious beliefs but with a reservation which largely wipes out the effect of the guarantee.
The clause was incorporated as port of the Covenant on Human Rights which the commission is drafting. The vitiating clause attached to the guarantee limits the freedom of religious practice to law and to such limitations as “are reasonable and necessary to protect public safety, order, health, morals and fundamental rights and freedom of others.” It is generally believed that these limitations wipe out a good portion of religious freedom.
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