Secular State: a reflection on the twentieth anniversary of the right to freedom worship

Abstract

From the look of a "global" system, serious defects are found in institutions (civil status of persons, education, law enforcement, social environment, etc.), and the manifestations of the social body and individuals (political, economy, culture, morality, art, science, etc.), influenced and permeated by the religious field. So, he was raised as a research problem discussion on what would be the legal phenomena and legal partner in the field of civil law, education system and law enforcement, undermine the institutionalization and development of the secular State in Colombia from 1991 constitution from the perspective of the constitutional criteria of the right to equality, freedom of religion and free development of personality. This in order to identify and characterize the light of constitutional jurisprudence legal phenomena and legal partner last confessional State in Colombia, which remain valid in practice, being contrary to the direction and development of the principles that make up the State lay in Colombia.

Using for this purpose a design of qualitative research, quantitative research themselves (percentages, statistics) tools, inductive inference and diachronic analysis of the data. Shedding resulted in the apparent resistance of various sectors of the former State, which persist to the new regime which stands raising the need to draw practices and strategies that gradually allow the internalization of the judicial and legal imperative established in Colombia since 1991.