E/CN.4/1998/6/Add.2 page 15 the levying of a church tax is concerned, the Mormons have decided not to seek to join the system. They do not encounter any difficulties in the field of religious education, since their children have freedom of choice, any more than with the construction of places of worship and circulation of their publications. They are also quite free to engage in door-to-door proselytizing activities. The Mormon representatives said they did not suffer any persecution. However, as a consequence of the present debate on sects and psycho-groups, they say there is a climate of mistrust towards all religious minorities. This situation is said to be the result, in particular, of the intervention of the major Churches and of their staff responsible for sects, who are regarded as specialists and act as an interest group in dealings with the State in order to counter competition from other groups and communities by labelling them all, without distinction, as sects or psycho-groups. This climate is also, according to the Mormons, kept up by the media. In their view, the most disturbing aspect is State intervention in the form of pamphlets on the sects, also covering the Mormon community. They explained that the information on them contained in the pamphlets was accurate, but that their inclusion under the heading of “sect” constituted defamation. The Mormons consider this to be an abuse of the State's neutrality. Concerning the Bundestag Study Commission, they said that they had no problem with its members, but felt the effects of the existence of such a commission because it led to confusion about minorities, sects and psycho-groups. 64. The Jehovah's Witnesses, as stated in part I. C, are regarded as a religious community, but have been denied the status of a legal person in public law by the German courts. Admittedly, this refusal does not mean, according to the authorities, that they are not recognized as a religious community. However, according to the Jehovah's Witnesses, in the lower echelons of the administration and in the media, this court decision is used in order to portray them as a sect. The Jehovah's Witnesses also state that they are victims of a climate of intolerance created by the discussions on sects going on in the Bundestag Study Commission and by the activities of the major Churches' advisory bureaux on sects. Official information pamphlets on sects refer the reader to these advisory bureaux. According to the Jehovah's Witnesses, the State is thereby in a sense abandoning its neutrality, insofar as it is favouring the dominant Churches in the competition between religions. Furthermore, according to the Amtsblatt des Hessischen Kulturministeriums No. 8/97 of 15 August 1997, “documentation, information and other publicity material from presumed sects and psycho-groups, generally sent free to schools and other educational institutions, must not be passed on by the school ... to teachers or to schoolchildren or their parents, nor must it be placed in school libraries or teachers' libraries”. However, according to the Jehovah's Witnesses, video recordings of tendentious television broadcasts are shown in schools and the “dangerous aspect” of their community is emphasized in discussions with pupils. 65. This atmosphere of distrust, and even latent intolerance, because of the factors mentioned above, is also said to affect the Baha'i community. 66. The Unification Church says that it suffers from discrimination. The German Government refused the founder of the Unification Church, the Reverend Sun M. Moon, and his wife Hak J. H. Moon entry into its territory in November 1995 on the grounds that they constituted, according to