France annuls first same-sex marriage

[arcos]

France annuls first same-sex marriage

A French court has annulled France's first gay marriage, setting a legal precedent for outlawing same-sex marriages that came down on the side of the conservative government.

The government had already declared the marriage invalid and suspended the mayor who conducted it on June 5 in the Bordeaux suburb of Begles. The court ruling was a blow for opposition politicians who want to make gay marriages legal.

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The marriage stirred controversy in France, where the law allows civil unions between homosexuals although gays say this puts them at a disadvantage in terms of tax, inheritance and adoption rights.

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Members of President Jacques Chirac's ruling conservative party, Roman Catholic church leaders and some opposition Socialists have said children need a mother and a father and that the issue was too serious to be discussed in a hurry.

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http://sg.news.yahoo.com/040727/3/3lzn7.html

[xchrom]

1. just goes to show

how far and how hard gay people the world over must work to over come the superstitous who run our lives.

[Cronus Protagonist]

2. We need to promote the Gay Agenda more forcefully

http://cronus.com/agenda

SHOVE IT! - Drop Bush Not Bombs! - Hero Kerry AWOL Bush
http://brainbuttons.com/home.asp?stashid=13

[Hoping4Change]

3. What happened to the France is a secular state argument

used to justify banning head scarves in public schools?

[LiberalVoice]

4. The French are hypocrites...I personally don't see why americans...

don't like them so much. They are so alike.

[Hoping4Change]

5. How true especially how blatant it is.

[jakpalmer]

11. I'm sorry but

this kind of generalization is the same as saying all Americans are war criminals...

I think you should acknowledge the difference between "Members of President Jacques Chirac's ruling conservative party, Roman Catholic church leaders and some opposition Socialists" and "the French".

As a matter of fact i think that "the French", as in most European countries, are almost evenly divided regarding this issue.

[LiberalVoice]

12. I retract my previous statement...

You're right I shouldn't have been so hasty.

And Welcome to DU jakpalmer!

[newyawker99]

13. Hi jakpalmer!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Catfight]

6. To annul would mean they acknowledge it in the first place? tst tst...

hypocrits.

[BonjourUSA]

7. Annulation because it is not legal... Where is the problem ?

No‘l Mamer, The mayor of Blegle, is a leader and the parlementary chief of the French Green party and he likes to promote himself and to look after his own ad

[Lexingtonian]

8. otoh

Nonetheless, nine(!) of the (western) EU countries are considering legalizing gay marriage and public opinion in favor is generally in the 60-70% range throughout most of western Europe.

I haven't been able to find the list of the nine, but Britain and Spain are two of them. (Zapatero getting a dressing down from the Pope over it led to the newspaper article mentioning the number as nine. The Britain story was in the papers around the time Massachusetts legalized.)

So maybe corraling the activists (like these fellows) is on the whole more of an attempt from inside the French government to smooth the waves. (I can't see France, or for that matter Germany, not part of the nine.) The way the operatives have to look at it, 65% support means it's a sure thing- just a matter of each country trying to minimize the bad behavior of its recidivistic fascist Right that accomplishes nothing except to diminish the country's standing.

[BonjourUSA]

9. 57% Frenchs in favor,

But 56% are against legal capabilities of adoption

http://www.ipsos.fr/CanalIpsos/articles/1342.asp?rubId=21

[Kellanved]

10. Germany "not part of the nine?"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1468000/1468031.stm
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/07/17/germany.marriage/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,2763,1233596,00.html
(The Guadrdian has mixed up the names of the German houses of Parliament.)

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