‘Festive’ Christmas cribs in France’s town halls don’t flout secularism, top court rules

  • 11/11/2016
  • Henry Samuel

telegraph.co.uk   (11.09.2016)  

 

Frenchtown halls can continue bedecking their entrance halls with nativity scenes, the country’s highest administrative court ruled on Wednesday, after a bitter two-year battle over whether doing so flouted rules on secularism.

However, adding a hair-splitting condition, the State Council said such cribs could only be installed if the intent was “cultural, artistic or festive”, and not religious proselytism.

 

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