Problems in section Governance subsection Law The following paragraph reads France does not recognize religious law nor does it recognize religious beliefs or morality as a motivation for the enactment of prohibitions As a consequence France has long had neither blasphemy laws nor sodomy laws the latter being abolished in 1791 However offenses against public decency contraires aux bonnes m urs or disturbing public order trouble l ordre public have been used to repress public expressions of homosexuality or street prostitution With such emphasis on public order laws sentencing racism sexism or antisemitism are also old and important For instance laws prohibiting discriminatory speech in the press are as old as 1881 93 Some consider however that hate speech laws in France are too broad or severe and damage freedom of speech This has to be removed or at least re written because it is incorrect and not supported by the source given The fact that France does not recognize religious law is true this can and should stay The fact that is doesn t recognize morality as a source of law is not If so why was adultery illegal until 1975 Even worse why were children born from adultery discriminated in inheritance up until 2001 when France was forced to change its law by the European Court of Human Rights In regard to sexism which is addressed here France was one of the last Western countries to recognize the rights of women vote for women only in 1944 women could not work without the consent of husband until 1965 leniency for crimes of passion under the Napoleonic Code etc Let s not even open this subject Also the source given does not support what the paragraph is saying it only explains some laws against racism and antisemitism I m removing the paragraph