Catherine Picard

Catherine Picard

Member, French National Assembly
In office June 1, 1997 – June 8, 2002
Personal details
Born	(1952-08-14) August 14, 1952 Hauts-de-Seine, France
Political party	French Socialist Party

Catherine Picard (born August 14, 1952) is a French politician from the French Socialist Party. She was a member of the French National Assembly from 1997 to 2002.

Career

Picard was elected on June 1, 1997 for the French Socialist Party and was responsible for public education. In 2001, together with centrist senator Nicolas About, she drafted the About-Picard law.^[1]

In 2007 Picard was found guilty of slander against the Jehovah's Witnesses.^[1] In 2009 she became a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.^[2]

Published works

Fournier, Anne; Picard, Catherine (2002). Sectes, démocratie et mondialisation. Paris: Presses universitaires de France. ISBN 978-2-13-052569-1.

References

1 2 Eileen Barker, ed. (2010). The Centrality of Religion in Social Life. Ashgate Publishing. pp. 46–47, 60.
↑ "Légion d'honneur, la promotion du Nouvel An" (in French). La Croix. Retrieved 17 January 2015.

External links

Official page at National Assembly website

Opposition to new religious movements

Secular groups	APA Task Force on Deceptive and Indirect Methods of Persuasion and Control Cult Awareness Network International Cultic Studies Association - ICSA (Formerly: the AFF, American Family Foundation) The Family Survival Trust - TFST (Formerly: FAIR - Family Action Information and Rescue) Fight Against Coercive Tactics Network Cult Information Centre

Secular individuals	Steven Hassan Galen Kelly Michael Langone Ted Patrick Rick Ross Tom Sackville Jim Siegelman Margaret Singer & Janja Lalich (Cults in Our Midst) Louis Jolyon West Cyril Vosper Lawrence Wollersheim

Religious groups	Reachout Trust Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry Christian Research Institute Dialog Center International Personal Freedom Outreach Watchman Fellowship New England Institute of Religious Research Institute for Religious Research Spiritual Counterfeits Project Wellspring Retreat and Resource Center

Religious individuals	Johannes Aagaard Alexander Dvorkin Ronald Enroth Hank Hanegraaff Paul R. Martin Walter Ralston Martin Robert Passantino

Governmental organizations	European Federation of Centres of Research and Information on Sectarianism Centre contre les manipulations mentales Union nationale des associations de défense des familles et de l'individu MIVILUDES Parliamentary Commission on Cults in France

Individuals in government	Catherine Picard

Concepts	Cult NRM apologist Deprogramming Freedom of religion Heresy Mind control New religious movement

Historical events	About-Picard law Governmental lists of cults and sects Persecution of Bahá'ís Persecution of Falun Gong Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses Anti-Mormonism Scientology in Germany

Authority control	VIAF: 223114236 SUDOC: 057766789 BNF: cb14427869p (data)

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