At the microphone of Europe 1, the former socialist minister Jean Glavany, ardent defender of secularism, refuses to endorse the current debate between several conceptions of secularism, which divides the political sphere.
"We must re-establish a unique conception, that of the Republic," he said.
INTERVIEW
With 48 other personalities, he signs a platform in the
Sunday Journal
, in which he calls to "
hold
high the secular ideal".
The former socialist minister Jean Glavany, author of
Laïcité, un combat pour la paix
, returned, Sunday to Europe 1, on the controversy, old, but returned to the center of the debate since the attack of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, on the different conceptions of secularism.
"Secularism is a complex and subtle value", explains Jean Glavany.
The law of 1905, he recalls, "is a law of a liberal character, but which clearly states that these freedoms are exercised within the limits of public order".
Secularism is therefore a "subtle balance between two legs: a liberal leg and a public order leg".
For Jean Glavany, the two antagonistic conceptions which confront each other regularly in the intellectual debate, are conceptions "that have these hemiplegics, those who only retain the liberal aspect and forget public order, it is a large part of the left and far-left, and those who forget the freedom aspect and respect for differences ".
"There are not two conceptions of secularism"
"There are those who speak of rights and never of duties, others who speak of duties and never of rights", sums up the guest from Europe 1.
However, says Jean Glavany, "these two conceptions are wrong", because secularism "makes both legs work at the same time, otherwise you are hemiplegic".
"No, there are not two conceptions of secularism," insists the former minister.
And to conclude: "We must reestablish a unique conception of secularism, that of the Republic".