Berlin's Banning The Use of Religious Clothing by Public Servants 



     A primary school teacher in Berlin is fighting for her right to be able to wear her headscarf to work and practice her religion. A German judge ruled that public servants such as teachers, police officers, and court officials should not show religion in public on that extent. They deemed this law to be constitutional even though three years ago they reversed the same laws because the constitutional court ruled the unconstitutional. 

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  1. Mary SpaethMay 10, 2018 at 6:45 PM

    Interesting to compare to earlier days when some of us had nuns for teachers who covered their heads completely for nearly the same reasons. Secularism helps in some ways to equalize us all, but it also serves to diminish, unintentionally perhaps, the profiling of religions.

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