Overview

• President Emmanuel Macron visited the Grande Loge de France on May 5, marking the first presidential visit to the Freemason organization.
• In his speech, Macron defended the 1905 law separating Church and State, describing it as a law of freedom protecting belief and non-belief alike.
• He warned against misusing secularism for exclusionary or identity-based purposes, calling for unity under its principles.
• Macron urged Freemasons to act as 'ambassadors of fraternity,' emphasizing the alignment of secularism with liberty, not exclusion.
• The president expressed strong support for the active assistance in dying bill under review in the National Assembly, dismissing conspiracy theories about Freemason influence on the debate.