Alain Vivien: The First Amendment is “crazy.”

On June 14, 1999, Alain Vivien, president of the French government’s “Interministerial Mission to Fight Against Sects,” told Reuters News Agency that:

“We are protecting freedoms at least as well as the Americans. In the United States, freedoms are crazy. In the name of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which forbids the enactment of laws dealing with religious affairs, one can say and do anything he wishes including practicing polygamy like some Mormons do.” ["Nous d巉endons les libert巗 au moins aussi bien que les Am巖icains. Aux Etats-Unis les libert巗 sont folles. Au nom du Premier amendement de la Constitution am巖icaine qui interdit de l巊if巖er en mati弐e religieuse, on peut dire et faire n’importe quoi, y compris pratiquer la polygamie comme certains Mormons."]