Religious leaders have criticized a ruling by the European Union's highest court that could allow employers to prohibit staff from wearing visible religious symbols in the workplace.

That move was clearly linked to what activists call the "reindeer rules," in which secular and sacred symbols are mixed to honor guidelines from the Supreme Court's Lemon v. Kurtzman in 1971.

Even before the house lights come up in the theater, while the final credits for "The Matrix Reloaded" are still rolling, the arguments begin.

The French parliament is expected Tuesday to approve a controversial law that would ban all conspicuous religious dress and symbols in public secondary schools. NBC's Jim Maceda reports from Paris.

The symbol is free of any religious connotations and would allow countries with mixed religious traditions to become full members of the Red Cross and Red Crescent societies.

Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A professor of law at Harvard University, he is author, most recently, of “To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People ...

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