During his tenure, he was the minister in charge of the implementation of the French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools.

Ferry is the creator of the comic book series La Sagesse des mythes which is based on Greek mythology and has been published since 2016.

In June 2011, Ferry announced on television that he knew about a former government minister who had sexually abused young boys in an orgy in Morocco.

[3][4] According to him, the case was known at the highest levels of the French state, but he provided no specifics as to the person involved, citing the risk of being sued for libel.

[citation needed] As a humanist, Ferry is highly critical of animal rights, deep ecology and environmentalism which he dismisses for elevating the moral status of nature.