TY - JOUR
AU - Gunn, T. Jeremy
AB - Under God but Not the Scarf: The Founding Myths of Religious Freedom in the United States and Lai'cit› in France T. JEREMY GUNN In March 2004, the French parliament adopted a law that prohibits public school students from wearing clothing and insignia that "con- spicuously manŸ a religious affiliation." The law was approved by ah overwhelming vote of 494-36 in the National Assembly, 276-20 in the Senate, and was strongly supported by popular opinion throughout France. The momentum for adopting such a law began in March 2003, when Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin of the governing conserva- tire party UMP (Union pour un Mouvement Populaire) said in a radio interview that Muslim headscarves should "absolutely" be prohibited in public schools. A string of endorsements for such a law followed dur- ing the next few inonths, culminating in a December 2003 speech by President Jacques Chirac, also of the UMP, in which he similarly pro- posed that a law be adopted. Mthough the highest French administra- tire court (the Conseil d'� had ruled as early as 1989 that French children have the constitutional right to wear religious insignia to school, and although many scholars of religion and law believed the law 
TI - Under God but Not the Scarf: The Founding Myths of Religious Freedom in the United States and Laïcité in France
JF - Journal of Church and State
DO - 10.1093/jcs/46.1.7
DA - 2004-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/under-god-but-not-the-scarf-the-founding-myths-of-religious-freedom-in-0ZspKJyjDF
SP - 7
EP - 24
VL - 46
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -