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In January 2014, a Protestant news agency published an article about Evangelical private schools teaching creationism in French-speaking Switzerland. These revelations, picked by the mainstream media, produced a “malaise” among the public authorities. They put the relationship between religion, science, and politics to the test, and redefined what is part of the public domain and what can be considered a private matter, under the guise of “religious freedom.” Based on a sociology that seeks to describe a range of arguments from the perspective of a third party (cases, controversies, and scandals) to analyze the sequence of events that followed such revelations, this article focuses on the way this “malaise” has a critical impact on regulation in different spheres (media, religion, and politics).