The Campaign for Jedi Rights
In England and Wales 390,127 people (almost 0.8%) stated their religion as Jedi on their 2001 Census forms, surpassing Sikhism, Judaism, and Buddhism, and making it the fourth largest reported religion in the country.
On March 7, 2010, Jediism was specifically excluded in an act protecting other new religious movements such as Scientology from discrimination.
On November 16th 2006 two Jedi Knights turned up at the UN's London HQ to demand official recognition of their religion, John Wilkinson and Charlotte Law timed their protest to coincide with the UN International Day of Tolerance, which they requested be renamed "Interstellar Day of Tolerance".
In 2009, Daniel Jones was removed from a Tesco Supermarket in Bangor, North Wales, for refusing to remove his hood on a religious basis and the following year, a Jedi was thrown out of a Jobcentre in Southend, Essex, for refusing to remove his hood; he later received an apology
We "The New Jedi Order" demand that the UK government accept Jedism as a faith and that we are treated as equal to all other faiths.
We aim to work toward a network of Jedi movements and groups to form a "central organisation" that can decide an united "code of belief" which the lack of such is the main reason why the UK government refuses to recognise Jedism as a religon.
We are currently working on setting up a meeting with the Culture Minister and shadow Minister to discuss our campaign and air our views...... Watch this Space!
In England and Wales 390,127 people (almost 0.8%) stated their religion as Jedi on their 2001 Census forms, surpassing Sikhism, Judaism, and Buddhism, and making it the fourth largest reported religion in the country.
On March 7, 2010, Jediism was specifically excluded in an act protecting other new religious movements such as Scientology from discrimination.
On November 16th 2006 two Jedi Knights turned up at the UN's London HQ to demand official recognition of their religion, John Wilkinson and Charlotte Law timed their protest to coincide with the UN International Day of Tolerance, which they requested be renamed "Interstellar Day of Tolerance".
In 2009, Daniel Jones was removed from a Tesco Supermarket in Bangor, North Wales, for refusing to remove his hood on a religious basis and the following year, a Jedi was thrown out of a Jobcentre in Southend, Essex, for refusing to remove his hood; he later received an apology
We "The New Jedi Order" demand that the UK government accept Jedism as a faith and that we are treated as equal to all other faiths.
We aim to work toward a network of Jedi movements and groups to form a "central organisation" that can decide an united "code of belief" which the lack of such is the main reason why the UK government refuses to recognise Jedism as a religon.
We are currently working on setting up a meeting with the Culture Minister and shadow Minister to discuss our campaign and air our views...... Watch this Space!