Secularism wants to root in Angers

A tribute to secularism has taken place in the redevelopped Lorraine square in Angers. That tribute is a tree, a symbolic choice for the supporters of such an initiative who want to see secularism protected and even developped in France. Numerous persons have attended the tree planting ceremony on december 9, 107 years after the most famous French law enacting the state and church separation was drafted. The originators of the event are above all public education trade unions while Angers gathers an important number of catholic schools and event a catholic university. 

But in Angers, civil society and church are not as separated as church and state are since 1905. Angers gathers an important numbers of confessionnal schools and even a catholic university. And, in Angers, as in many other French (and English) cities, religion has invaded the streets because of the headgears and clothes wore by women who seem to impose their religious opinions to the passer-by's knowledge. 

The Angers catholic church is going to take part next saturday to a debate about the opportunity to generalize the civil mariage between persons of the same gender. It is not said the ideas of Angers catholic church will have the same echo in the city that the defense of private schools got more than 30 years ago.