Religious Freedom

According to a Reuters article, "The State Department voiced misgivings on Thursday about French President Jacques Chirac's plan to bar the wearing of Islamic headscarves, Jewish skullcaps and large Christian crosses in state schools. 'President Chirac is concerned to maintain France's principle of secularism and he wants that, as I think he said, not to be negotiable,' U.S. ambassador John Hanford told reporters when asked about the issue. 'Our hope is religious freedom would be a nonnegotiable as well.'"

This deserves more thought.