The bill "confirming respect for the principles of the Republic" certainly starts from a good intention: to consolidate the fundamental values of our Republic while striving to strengthen relations between the public authorities and religious associations.
Such a project is undoubtedly necessary.
The great jurist Jean Rivero had moreover perfectly shown the virtues of the constitutional principle of secularism as signifying the confessional neutrality of the State and the guarantee of fundamental freedoms, foremost of which, in the religious domain, the freedoms of worship and of religion. association and the principle of equality before the law.
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"In France, religious congregations have fewer rights than any association"
Recalling these requirements implies above all a legal and not an ideological approach.
It is in the light of this reminder that we may be surprised that there still exists in French law, in manifest contradiction with the principle of State neutrality, an anomaly which also appears as an unjustifiable archaism: the impossibility
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