Is the insult to religion analyzed as an “attack on freedom of conscience”? The question recently arose in connection with the famous “Mila affair”. Our Keeper of the Seals first saw fit to answer in the affirmative. Did she want to restore an offense of contempt for religious morality, as was the case during the Restoration, a roundabout way of returning to the offense of blasphemy, however abolished in 1791? Because, in this area, words are trapped. Many commentators confused in the same sentence freedom of conscience with freedom of thought, of worship, of belief, sometimes even with freedom of expression, testifying to the difficulties of grasping this notion.
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The minister, remembering that she had been a member of the Constitutional Council, ends up measuring her error. She admitted that her expression had been "awkward" and then admitted to simply having committed a fault, more exactly, she said, "inaccuracy" . Of which act. There is a certain honor
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