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Abstract Between 2015-2018, the Constitutional Court of Georgia considered two cases with respect to religious organizations’ Right on Equality and Non-discrimination. The Respondent Party, the Parliament of Georgia, as one of its arguments, indicated that alleged different treatment - exemptions and privileges granted exclusively to the Orthodox Church of Georgia, was justified by the ‘Special Role of the Orthodox Church of Georgia in the History of Georgia’. In connection with that argument, the Court made valuable interpretations, in particular, whether and to what extent the special role of a religious institution in the historical past of country can be used to pursue an aim to create the privileged status for it in the present days. The present article considers this very issue from the perspective of the Constitutional Court of Georgia’s Case Law.

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