VLVL II: "What is Fascism?" (fwd)

[Ghetta Life]

>From: "Otto" <ottosell at yahoo.de>
>
>The reason is that France is much more secularised since the French 
>Revolution than (for example) the USA. At France they take the division 
>between the State and the personal belief quite serious.

In the US this separation is established by the First Amendment to the 
Constitution:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or 
prohibiting the free exercise thereof;"

But you can see that it specifically would not allow the outlawing of an 
individaul's practice of personal religious beliefs.  Neither would it allow 
coercion of individuals to practice any beliefs.  By this measure France has 
breached the separation of curch & state.

Ghetta

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