Equality of all religions

Articles 27 and 28 protect religious equality by restricting what the STATE

itself may do, rather than what individuals may do. Article 27 says that no person can be compelled

to pay any tax whose proceeds are specifically meant to promote or maintain any one particular

religion or religious denomination -- the state cannot use public money, raised from everyone, to

favour a single faith.

Article 28 restricts religious instruction in educational institutions: no religious instruction can

be provided in any institution wholly maintained out of state funds, and even in state-recognised or

state-aided institutions, no student can be compelled to take part in religious instruction or

worship without their (or, if a minor, their guardian's) consent. Taken together with Articles 25 …