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March 16, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the prohibition of adoption to non- married couples is not discriminatory, because it applies to both heterosexual and homosexual couples equally. It has also ruled that homosexual “marriage” is not a right under the European Convention on Human Rights . The European Court of Human Rights The decision effectively confirms the liceity under the same Convention of French law , which does not award the status of “marriage” to homosexual couples, and does not permit non-married couples to adopt children. The ruling was announced yesterday in a suit by a French lesbian couple, Valérie Gas and Nathalie Dubois, who have been in a Pact of Civil Solidarity ( PACS ) since 2002.  A PACS is a loose contractual arrangement made available to both heterosexual and homosexual couples in France, in contrast with stronger “civil union” arrangements and homosexual “marriages” available in some other countries.  Du

Image via Wikipedia France ’s Constitutional Council, its highest court for constitutional issues, has agreed to examine homosexual “marriage,” and is expected to render a verdict within a week. The case has been passed to the Council by the French Court of Cassation , the nation’s highest appeals court for non-constitutional legal issues, which  received the case  in November.  Two lesbians, who have conceived children by artificial insemination, want to call their relationship a “marriage,” and are asking for the legal right to do so. The couple’s attorney recently told the Le Figaro newspaper that, given the resistance in France to equating homosexual relations with marriage, he is using a more “subtle” approach. “It’s not a matter of asking the Constitutional Council if it will make a pronouncement for or against homosexual marriage. It’s necessary to be more subtle,” said lawyer Emmanuel Ludot. The first question Ludot is asking the judiciary to decide is whether “the judge,