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France has adopted a law that addresses crimes encouraged and committed by cults. Cultists, cult promoters and cult sympathizers are bombarding the press with spin-doctored information, going as far as too suggest this proposed law indicates the end of democracy in France. That, of course, is utter nonsense. Freedom comes with responsibility, including the responsibility to address crimes committed by cults under the guise of ''religion.''
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France does not recognise religious law, nor does it recognise religious beliefs or morality as a motivation for the enactment of prohibitions. As a consequence, France has long had neither blasphemy laws nor sodomy laws (the latter being abolished in 1791). However "offences against public decency" (contraires aux bonnes mœurs) or breach of the peace (trouble à l'ordre public) have been used to repress public expressions of homosexuality or street prostitution.
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WARNING: Mein Kampf and other symbols of Nazism, including material questioning the extent of National Socialist crimes or praising it's actions, are forbidden in France, under the Gayssot Law. The penalty is a prison sentence of up to one year, or a fine (the maximum is €46,000). Foreigners are not exempted from this law.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy faced accusations on Saturday of trying to subvert the authority of France's top constitutional body over a law to incarcerate dangerous criminals indefinitely. The controversy arose after the
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