Monday, March 14, 2011

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Supreme Court: "Only the courts can stand the crucifix"

Dall ' article in the Corriere della Sera:


ROME - to exhibit in public offices, which include the halls of justice, religious symbols other than the crucifix "is necessary discretion of the legislature that the state does not exist." Stressed in the Supreme Court in the grounds with which it has confirmed the removal of the court from the Magistrates' anticrocefisso "Luigi Tosti, who refused to hold a hearing until the symbol of Christianity had not been taken away from all the Italian courts. Alternatively Tosti asked, even the Supreme Court, to exhibit the Menorah, symbol of the Jewish faith.






From text of the Italian Constitution directly from the Government website:


Article 8
All religious confessions are equally free before the law.
The religious denominations other than Catholic have the right to organize in accordance with its statutes, are not in conflict with the Italian legal system.
Their relations with the State are regulated by law on the basis of agreements with their respective representatives.

Where is secularism?

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