Speech and Religion in the U.S. and France

I've got a little interview on the legal positions of the United States and France on free speech and religious liberty with the magazine, France-Amérique.  My basic position is that the countries are less far apart than is commonly supposed.  Both countries are struggling with the same sorts of issues and with the same problem of reaching an appropriate equilibrium among values in tension.  That is why their legal settlements can best be understood and studied as a product of their respective histories and traditions, rather than as the result of an overarching difference of political principle.