13th July 2010, 11:48 AM
ABF I see your point but don't think this was the answer. It's going to be totally ineffectual, and it tramples on certain rights. It's an oppressive symbol and a system needs to be made to reach out to the women who actually are forced to wear it, but outlawing symbols is dumb.
There is a marked difference between banning a religious symbol from a government building and banning it from public life completely. The former has merit, the latter does not. I know France doesn't have that precious First Amendment, but saying "eh in this case that's probably fine" is kinda dumb. What's the point of having a first amendment if you're going to make exceptions? I think more of Europe COULD benefit from adding something like our first amendment.
Find another way to handle this. Banishing clothing is worthless.
There is a marked difference between banning a religious symbol from a government building and banning it from public life completely. The former has merit, the latter does not. I know France doesn't have that precious First Amendment, but saying "eh in this case that's probably fine" is kinda dumb. What's the point of having a first amendment if you're going to make exceptions? I think more of Europe COULD benefit from adding something like our first amendment.
Find another way to handle this. Banishing clothing is worthless.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)