- 12 Dec 2003 19:35
#57997
Secularity within the state apparatus and particularly the eduction is on everybody's lips these days in France after the case of two girls expelled from school for wearing big headscarves launched a national debate.
Debate which is now officially summed up as a report of members of the Senate or the Constitutional Council (i now can't remember) released yesterday to the public. This text proposes to clearly and officially forbid the use of "patent, fit to be seen" religious signs: big crosses, kippas and headscarves in schools or the administration. And also that a law forbidding muslim female patients to refuse to be cured, or to have her children cured, in hospitals by a man.
It also adds that the Kippour and Aid el-kébir should be bank holidays for schools. And that muslim and jewish employees could swap christian holidays for theirs in their companies.
If i totally support the first and second points, the third is making one step backward; there are several visions of "secularity", but more than supporting every religion, the state should be separated from all of them: we should thus suppress the religious bank holidays altogether and institute others for for instance the creation of the assembly, the revolution, the proclaimation of the first Republic, etc.
What do you think of these measures, good idea to follow or not?
Debate which is now officially summed up as a report of members of the Senate or the Constitutional Council (i now can't remember) released yesterday to the public. This text proposes to clearly and officially forbid the use of "patent, fit to be seen" religious signs: big crosses, kippas and headscarves in schools or the administration. And also that a law forbidding muslim female patients to refuse to be cured, or to have her children cured, in hospitals by a man.
It also adds that the Kippour and Aid el-kébir should be bank holidays for schools. And that muslim and jewish employees could swap christian holidays for theirs in their companies.
If i totally support the first and second points, the third is making one step backward; there are several visions of "secularity", but more than supporting every religion, the state should be separated from all of them: we should thus suppress the religious bank holidays altogether and institute others for for instance the creation of the assembly, the revolution, the proclaimation of the first Republic, etc.
What do you think of these measures, good idea to follow or not?
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