Bill Text: HI HR196 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Church of Scientology; Certificate Resolution

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)

Status: (Passed) 2013-03-14 - Resolution adopted in final form. [HR196 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HR196-Introduced.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.R. NO.	196
TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2013
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE RESOLUTION

 

 

Commending the Church of scientology for its humanitarian work and community service around the globe.

 

 

 

     WHEREAS, the basic tenets of the Church of Scientology envision "a civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings have rights, and where Man is free to rise to greater heights"; and

 

     WHEREAS, in keeping with these guiding principles, for over five decades, the Church of Scientology has worked to support human rights and social betterment programs around the globe; and

 

     WHEREAS, each year Scientologists volunteer more than twenty-seven million hours in their communities through participation in humanitarian programs; and

 

     WHEREAS, Scientology organizations devoted to the preservation and expansion of human rights, such as Youth for Human Rights International and United for Human Rights, have distributed educational materials, produced public service announcements, and led petition drives in nations around the world to urge adoption and enforcement of human rights standards; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Church of Scientology's drug-awareness program, Foundation for a Drug-Free World, is one of the largest drug education initiatives in the world, with an international network that reaches fifty-eight countries; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Foundation for a Drug-Free World focuses on drug awareness and prevention through education, and has distributed tens of millions of copies of its drug awareness materials and conducted thousands of community drug awareness activities around the world; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Church of Scientology's drug rehabilitation program, Narconon, has implemented the technology created by its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, to assist drug addicts with recovery without the use of other, substitute drugs or medications; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Church of Scientology encourages adherence to a non-religious moral code, described by its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, in The Way to Happiness, that contains precepts to happy living through constructive values, and distribution by Scientologists of these ideas in high crime areas has been shown to reduce crime and bring calm and happiness to areas previously in turmoil; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Church of Scientology's Volunteer Ministers program has dispatched its volunteers around the world to provide humanitarian aid and assistance in communities devastated by natural disasters such as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-seventh Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2013, that this body hereby congratulates and commends the Church of Scientology for its humanitarian work and community service around the globe.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title: 

Church of Scientology; Certificate Resolution