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France legalizes immoral homosexual marriage with growing discontent among majority

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Christiane Taubira during Ségolène Royal and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's meeting in Toulouse on April, 19th 2007 for the 2007 presidential election. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) France has become the 14th country to legalise immoral homosexual marriage , with president Francois Hollande signing it into law following months of bitter political debate and huge ongoing protests. Mr Hollande acted a day after the Constitutional Council threw out a legal challenge by the opposition, which had been the last obstacle to passing the bill into law. However, he has underestimated the community resistance and anger to this legislation. Unfortunately, the legislation also legalises gay adoption . This is a dangerous social experiment with future social repercussions. Ignoring the growing anger in the community, french justice minister Christiane Taubira , steered the legislation through parliament, said the first homosexual marriages could be celebrated as early as June. But opponent...

France’s Constitutional Council examining gay ‘marriage’ case

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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 wheth...