The French left favor gay marriage
January 17, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - As France moves towards the next presidential election a little more than three months away, a new poll indicates that a strong majority of French citizens now support a key element in the anti-family agenda of the French left : the creation of homosexual “marriage.” Although France was the first country in Europe to create civil union legislation for homosexuals, it has resisted pressure to open up the institution of marriage to same-sex couples, which would also allow them to adopt children. In June of last year, the French National Assembly voted down a measure to do so. However, a new poll conducted by the publication Le Parisian indicates that 63% of French citizens now favor the creation of homosexual “marriage,” a figure five percent higher than that from a poll in the first half of 2011. French President Nicholas Sarkozy The same poll indicates that only 51% of people who consider themselves “right-wing” continue to oppose such a