Judgment on crucifixes in schools (2)
The crucifix issue started when a versatile Finnish woman who wanted to raise her two children in an non-Catholic ambience took her case to the Strasbourg court where she won €5,000 damages. The court put forward the argument that the much adored...
The crucifix issue started when a versatile Finnish woman who wanted to raise her two children in an non-Catholic ambience took her case to the Strasbourg court where she won €5,000 damages. The court put forward the argument that the much adored crucifixes actually violate religious and educational freedoms.
Now as rightly stated in this newspaper, the EU and the European Court of Human Rights have absolutely nothing to do with each other. My question though springs from the fact that, though Malta is a Catholic country, not everybody is partial to Christianity and the Cross.
Could a Maltese person take a case to the court with the result that the classrooms and public places in Malta end up minus crucifixes?
It is true that at least both sides of the House agreed that the banning of crucifixes in Malta would never happen, but just in case some Maltese atheist were to decide on taking his case to Strasbourg, what would the parties in government and the opposition do then? Because, no, it is not as implausible as it sounds.