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February 9, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy , who has been under pressure from socialist opponents to weaken his stance on human life and family issues, says he is not budging. In a recent interview with the conservative magazine Le Figaro , Sarkozy reaffirmed his conservative stances on a variety of social and economic issues. In contrast to his principal opponent in the upcoming presidential elections, socialist François Hollande , Sarkozy told Le Figaro that he is “not favorable” to homosexual “marriage,” because it “opens the door to adoption.” French President Nicholas Sarkozy “In troubled times, when our society needs to keep its bearings, I don’t think that it is necessary to blur the image of this essential social institution that is marriage,” said Sarkozy. Although Sarkozy said that he supports strengthening certain legal rights for homosexuals, including inheritance rights, he opposes the creation of “civil unions” because the would “tend to h

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,