We think it would be great to live in a country where 60% of the population is in favor of same-sex marriage. Perhaps if that were the case in the U.S., it would be legal by now. In France those are the actual numbers, but President Jacques Chirac and his administration are vehemently against gay marriage and adoption.
Enter potential challenger in the 2007 elections Segolene Royal, the likely recipient of the Socialist Party nomination. Ms. Royal has recently become the first high-ranking French politician to fully support gay marriage and adoption rights though she herself has never wed the father of her four children, calling marriage a “bourgeois institution.” We are inclined to agree with her, but we applaud her efforts to make the bourgeois institution available to all French citizens.
Watch out President Chirac: the Socialists are coming, and they shouldn’t be understimated. Look what happened in Spain! With all the gay weddings happening there since Prime Minister Zapatero took over, we’re surprised that Spain hasn’t been severed from Europe by God-sent earthquakes and fissures.
French Presidential Contender Calls For Gay Marriage [365 Gay]
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kizmet
It’s sad, though not surprising, that Europe is so much more rational than the US about gay marriage. Even the uber religious countries in Europe are better than here. It sickens me that US states can quite happily allow 12 year old girls to marry elderly men, yet refuse the same rights to two adult men or women who love each other and want to raise a family.
doriangz
Just FYI she is not the first French politican to endorse same-sex marriage. She is actually one of the LAST ones in the Socialist party. All the other main candidates on that side of the aisle are for it and it has been in their program for two years. Even the front-runner in the rightist party is known to have nothing against it although he wont do it because of his base.
But since she is the front-runner for the nomination for the left, it is big news alright.