Zasada równouprawnienia związków wyznaniowych w orzecznictwie Trybunału Konstytucyjnego
The principle of equal rights of religious communities in the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court

Summary/Abstract: The principle of equal rights of religious communities is often taken issue in the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court. It has been dealt with in the article. 25 paragraph 1. 1 of the Constitution of 2 April 1997. It is the hallmark for democratic secular States. It Guarantees respect for religious diversity and the world view of society. The basis of this principle is human dignity. The Constitutional Court has confirmed in its case-law that the right premise equal rights of churches and other religious communities should be defined a common feature. Therefore, equal rights of religious communities is equal treatment of operators of a specific feature in the same degree. As a consequence of the existence of this principle in the Polish legal system is to exclude the possibility of State religion, because the nexus one would be in the form of a privileged position ' religious association of the Church of the State. At the same time, this principle implies different treatment churches and religious communities, which do not have the common feature important.The current Constitution of 2 April 1997 introduces its content the principle of equality of religious communities as one of the many constitutional instantiation of the principle of equality. This position highlighted by the Constitutional Court in its judgment of 2 April 2003 (K 13/02), and then also repeated in its judgment of 14 December 2009. Therefore, the principle of equality of religious communities should be interpreted as a general principle of equality with regard to the whole of the acquis the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court regarding the constitutional principle of equality. This indicates a single line of the jurisprudence in the interpretation of this principle.

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