Religious freedom and secularism

Ensuring the exercise of citizens ' rights to freedom of religion is the main component of its further democratic and legal development. According to the first paragraph of the first article of the Constitution of the country, the Republic of Kazakhstan asserts itself as a democratic, secular, legal and social state, the highest values of which are the person, his life, rights and freedoms.
Article 22 of the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan clearly States: "everyone has the right to freedom of conscience." Freedom of conscience is, first of all, one of the basic personal rights of a person, which implies the freedom of the individual from any ideological control, the right of everyone to voluntarily choose a system of spiritual values. Freedom of conscience is an absolute human right.
The Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan guarantees freedom of conscience and religion for everyone, and prohibits any form of discrimination on religious, ethnic or other grounds.

Source :kazislam.kz