International House Relations Committee Hearing:

Testimonies by Scientologists Anthony Armando (Chick) Corea and Craig Jensen

The following testimonies were presented at a hearing entitled The Treatment of Religious Minorities in Europe, held by the International Relations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. on June 14, 2000.

These testimonies provide important and revealing information about the nature and extent of governmental religious discrimination in Germany.

Copyright 2000 Federal News Service, Inc.
Federal News Service

June 14, 2000, Wednesday
SECTION: PREPARED TESTIMONY
LENGTH: 1759 words
HEADLINE: PREPARED TESTIMONY OF ARMANDO ANTHONY COREA BEFORE THE HOUSE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE
SUBJECT: THE TREATMENT OF RELIGIOUS MINORITIES IN WESTERN EUROPE

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 2000

BODY:

Mr. Chairman, Distinguished Members of the House International Relations Committee:

Let me first thank you, Chairman Gilman, for your continuous efforts on behalf of those suffering religious discrimination in Germany. Thanks also go to the staff and members of this Committee for conducting today’s hearing into religious intolerance. I thank, also, the principal co-sponsors of the Resolutions criticizing governmental discrimination in Germany that are presently in Congress — Senator Michael Enzi, Congressmen Matt Salmon, Donald Payne, Ed Pastor and the other co-sponsors. I wish I could acknowledge them all personally.

You could say I’m somewhat of a veteran of this battle. Back in 1993, in a report entitled “Human Rights and Democratization in Unified Germany”, the Helsinki Commission criticized the government of Baden-Wuertternberg for canceling my contract to perform at a state-sponsored jazz concert because I am a Scientologist. That report, I believe, represented the first official criticism of governmental religious discrimination in Germany.

Today, there are more than 30 similar reports from governments and human rights bodies, including seven State Department annual human rights reports and last year’s State Department report on international religious freedom.

Continued

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