21275: Lawless: Re: 21238: (Chamberlain) Haiti-Voodoo Politics (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Robert Lawless <robert.lawless@wichita.edu>

At 06:44 AM 4/12/2004 -0500, Dodds wrote:
>Voodoo is one of Haiti's three constitutionally recognized religions,
>along with Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.



>Article 30 of the 1987 Constitution forbids the establishment of any
>official religion in Haiti and declares, "All religions and all cults are
>at liberty." The article also secures the right of anyone to hold to any
>religious beliefs, "provided that the exercise of this right is not
>contrary to the public peace and order." Is this Constitution and Article
>30 still in effect? Wobe.