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Secularism in Europe takes a blow as Vatican flexes its political muscle

By ADF Alliance Alert

National Secular Society: The ruling from the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights that the display of crucifixes in state school classrooms does not violate a student?s freedom of conscience is a severe blow to the concept of secularism in Europe. It also leaves an uncomfortable suspicion over the motives and independence of the European Court . . . The European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ) ? (a branch of US televangelist Pat Robertson?s American Center for Law and Justice), was elated. The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) also hailed the ruling. (Both groups had filed briefs urging the court to uphold the crucifixes.)

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on March 25, 2011 (boomark / email).