Reply #27: Check out article 4 of the french declaration of the rights of man and citizen [View All]

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"La liberté consiste à pouvoir faire tout ce qui ne nuit pas à autrui : ainsi, l'exercice des droits naturels de chaque homme n'a de bornes que celles qui assurent aux autres membres de la société la jouissance de ces mêmes droits. Ces bornes ne peuvent être déterminées que par la loi." ("Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights. These limits can only be determined by law.") In this case prayer doesn't hurt anyone else (the praying individual's thoughts notwithstanding), and I'm not a french lawyer, but I predict that if the courts review this properly over there then they'd toss this.