For a 200 year old law, it’s pretty straight forward. And for all it’s flaws, the Nth revolution didn’t like the Catholic church for … reasons, so they wanted to make a law to get them out of politics and make them liable for their shenanigans. Thankfully they didn’t discriminate when they wrote the law.
PROHIBITIONS AND LIMITS TO INDIVIDUAL FREEDOMS IN THE
FRAMEWORK OF “LAÏCITÉ”
The principle of secularism means that the State and religious organisations are separate.
There is therefore no state-run public worship. The State neither recognises, nor subsidises,
nor salaries any form of worship. Exceptions and adjustments to the ban on funding are
defined in the legislation and case-law; they concern in particular chaplaincies, which are paid
for by the State1
No religion can impose its prescriptions on the Republic. No religious principle can be
invoked for disobeying the law.
For a 200 year old law, it’s pretty straight forward. And for all it’s flaws, the Nth revolution didn’t like the Catholic church for … reasons, so they wanted to make a law to get them out of politics and make them liable for their shenanigans. Thankfully they didn’t discriminate when they wrote the law.
https://www.gouvernement.fr/sites/default/files/contenu/piece-jointe/2017/02/libertes_et_interdits_eng.pdf