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Christoph Hagenbuch

Geburtsjahr
1985
District
AG
Liste
SVP – Schweizerische Volkspartei
Candidate no
01a.13 Help
Säkulare Übereinstimmung mit den Fragen
10,0%

The ten questions:

  1. The state outsources pastoral care of hospital, home and prison inmates and members of the army to churches. Are you in favour of extending these state-supported care services to include non-religious, secular alternatives?

  2. Should public and subsidised homes and hospitals in Switzerland be obliged to allow suicide assistance on their premises?
    Background: The Salvation Army, which operates a state-subsidized nursing home in Neuchâtel, had appealed against a cantonal law requiring publicly recognized non-profit institutions to respect a patient's wish for accompanied suicide in their premises. The Federal Court dismissed the complaint in 2016.

  3. Are you in favour of homosexual couples being allowed to marry and their marriage being equal to that of heterosexual couples in all rights and duties?

  4. Are you in favour of opening the registered partnership to heterosexual couples as a "lean" marriage light?
    France and Luxembourg offer such a "lean" alternative to marriage with the PACS, the pacte civil de solidarité.

  5. The mockery of religious beliefs is forbidden under the Swiss penal code. Since 2015, Norway, Iceland, Malta, France, Denmark and New Zealand have abolished such blasphemy articles. Should Switzerland follow suit? (see free-thought.ch/ResolutionRepealTheBlasphemyArticle)

  6. Should state employees in direct contact with the population (police officers, teachers, judges, etc.) be obliged to dress in an ideologically neutral manner (no cross, headscarf, kippa, etc.)?

  7. The Swiss syllabus (Lehrplan 21) includes the subject area "Ethics, Religions, Community". In most cantons, however, religion is clearly the dominant topic. Do you support the idea that schools should place more emphasis on general ethical concerns rather than on providing selective information on religions?

  8. Many cantons impose church taxes on associations and companies, even though these are usually denominationally neutral. Are you in favour of abolishing church taxes for legal entities or transforming them into a levy that can be paid out to one of several non-profit organisations?

  9. In the cantons of Neuchâtel and Geneva, state and churches are clearly separated. Religious communities organise themselves as associations. Are you in favour of a nation-wide separation of state and religious communities?

  10. Several cantons prohibit dancing, sporting events or markets on so-called «high holidays» (e.g. Whitsunday). Are you in favour of lifting these religiously motivated bans and equating the «high» holidays with Sundays like all other holidays?