French "Playboy President" is the scourge of European secularism
Chuck Colson has this commentary on the Christian Post:
French President Nicholas Sarkozy is an unlikely scourge of European secularism: He is on his third marriage and has been called the “playboy president” by his critics.
But it is what Sarkozy has just said about the role of religion in French life that has really got his critics up-in-arms.
For more than a century, what the French call laïcité has been the defining characteristic of French politics and public life. The word, which has no English equivalent, goes beyond the separation of church and state. It is a kind of secularism that tends to see “any strong religious views as a direct threat to [France’s] freedom and way of life . . .”