Reply #67: Unlike in the US, in FR, bigots are not free to exercise their bigotry based on beliefs

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Please people, stop assuming that all French citizens are protected of their right to exercise their religion of choice. Religion does not posses the privileged status that it is given in the US.

The French have NO constitutional protections such as "freedom of religion" like we have in the US. So no, bigots are not protected to exercise their bigotry freely like they do in the US. The French cannot impose creationism or intelligent design to be thought in public schools or ban gay unions/marriage just because Christianity is the de facto religion of the land because their citizens happen to belong to one of the many Christian franchises in the market. One thing is to preserve multiculturalism and another is to defend what one group believes as a religious duty (masked as a cultural issue and defended with western values of freedom), even if it goes against the entire values on the society.

I think it is arrogant to apply what is in our constitution to French society in general. It is the right of French citizens to protect their secular stance against any influences that places one segment of the population in a privilege position because of what they believe. When I say this, I think of our politicians push to create or implement a Christian Theocracy just because of the place christian religion is given in our society.

Now flame away!! :mad: