FWD: Le Monde Diplomatique, June 2001

[David Morris]

This is fine, but not to the point.  If any person or religion breaks the 
law (laws which apply to everyone), then they should be prosecuted.  But to 
outlaw a religion or an individual's speech is what the 1st Amendment 
prohibits.  That was what the French were proposing in the article you 
posted.

>Kurt-Werner Pörtner:
> > fqmorris at hotmail.com:
> > Parliaments are a mob, and Parliament IS government.  Some protection 
>for minorities must be insured against the mob.
>
>But that's not the point. In whole West Europe every member of every sect 
>you can imagine can do what he/she wants,as long as they don't hurt the 
>laws. [...]
First amendment? Okay, but as we say here, "Papier ist geduldig", paper is 
patient, what means: the constitution is one thing, the reality another.
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