“… It must be refused that (…) individuals, acting alone or as a pressure group, qualify as a “cult” any minority group within a religion or philosophy, make it accepted as a principle that any “cult” is condemnable, and make them draw a conclusion of prohibition or opprobrium;
such an approach leads, consciously or unconsciously, to totalitarianism by threatening the freedom of conscience of a minority…”
Court of Appeal of Montpellier, January 1994, excerpt