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Why France’s gay marriage debate has started to look like a revolution
The Spectator (UK) ^ | 27 April 2013 | John Laughland

Posted on 04/28/2013 11:12:06 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Revolutions are often sparked by an unexpected shock to an already-weakened regime. As commentators in France remark not only on the crisis engulfing François Hollande’s government but also on the apparent death rattle of the country’s entire political system, it could be that his flagship policy of legalizing gay marriage—or rather, the gigantic public reaction against it, unique in Europe—will be the last straw that breaks the Fifth Republic’s back. …

(T)he deeper explanation for the strength of feeling lies in the fact that, in French law, marriage is indissociable from the right to start a family. There is currently no gay adoption in France and no access for gays or lesbians to medically-assisted procreation. These have been legalized to general indifference in Britain, but they are regarded as unacceptable by many in France and as an intolerable attack on the rights of the child. The marches against gay marriage are therefore really marches in favor of the traditional family—and in favor of that “normality” that Hollande promised to bring to the presidency, but which he has betrayed in favor of the interests of a tiny minority. …

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: eussr; family; france; gayadoption; gaymarriage; homosexulagenda; marriage; protests; revolution; traditionalfamily
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1 posted on 04/28/2013 11:12:06 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Robespierre now controls France


2 posted on 04/28/2013 11:15:44 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Olog-hai

Vive la France!


3 posted on 04/28/2013 11:17:42 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Olog-hai

Reading this article makes me proud for once to have French ancestry!


4 posted on 04/28/2013 11:35:37 PM PDT by JSDude1 (Is John Boehner the Neville Chamberlain of American Politics?)
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To: Olog-hai
France, like the rest of Europe and much of the industrial world, is governed by one single political superclass which straddles not only nation-states but also left and right.

Yup.

5 posted on 04/28/2013 11:50:57 PM PDT by TChad (Call them Oppressives, not Progressives)
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France, like the rest of Europe and much of the industrial world, is governed by one single political superclass which straddles not only nation-states but also left and right.

Yup.


Exactly. Divide and conquer.


6 posted on 04/29/2013 12:15:47 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it. Their minds have been stolen.)
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To: Olog-hai

I thought the French were sexually liberated. How disillusioning.


7 posted on 04/29/2013 12:17:34 AM PDT by gleeaikin
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Can you blame them?

Why should 2% of the population be able to FORCE the other 98% to change the things they believe in and the way they do things?

Why exactly?


8 posted on 04/29/2013 12:19:17 AM PDT by djf (Rich widows: My Bitcoin address is... 1ETDmR4GDjwmc9rUEQnfB1gAnk6WLmd3n6)
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To: Olog-hai

Perhaps the Eldest Daughter of the Church is slowly awakening and may be preparing to repent - I pray so.

Regrettably, like most of the European Church, it has been served by weak or even subversive bishops.


9 posted on 04/29/2013 1:05:16 AM PDT by jtal (Runnin' a World in Need with White Folks' Greed - since 1492)
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To: Olog-hai

France has its socialist and libertarian factions, but there’s always been a Catholic one often suppressed by civil authorities who insist on a “secular state.”


10 posted on 04/29/2013 1:40:36 AM PDT by Nextrush (A BALANCED BUDGET NOW AND PRESIDENT SARAH PALIN ARE MY DREAMS)
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To: Olog-hai

Funny how the Obama buttlicking media (who for YEARS extolled the virtues of French culture) aren’t COVERING the apparent anger in that nation over the forced celebration of sodomy.

I pray for a spiritual revival in France, though...her people are lost without Christ.


11 posted on 04/29/2013 2:18:57 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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Couldn't find dissociable in the dictionary.
12 posted on 04/29/2013 3:01:02 AM PDT by LoveUSA (God employs Man's strength; Satan exploits Man's weakness.)
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I guess chanting we are the 98% wouldn’t do a thing huh? I do believe the numbers are changing a bit, based solely on my personal observation.


13 posted on 04/29/2013 3:24:39 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Back to West by G-d Virginia.)
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To: LoveUSA

Found dissociable in the Oxford English dictionary.

1. The reverse of sociable, unsociable

2. That tends to separate


14 posted on 04/29/2013 3:29:27 AM PDT by siunevada (If we learn nothing from history, what's the point of having one? - Peggy Hill)
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To: Nextrush

Ever go to a French Mass - particularly in Paris? So beautiful, so spiritual, so...everything.


15 posted on 04/29/2013 3:38:47 AM PDT by miss marmelstein ( Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: Olog-hai
If the Fifth Republic falls, will Madame Guillotine make a come back? Perhaps President Hollande and his Muslim friends need to make her acquaintance.

It is difficult to understand why the French elected this awful socialist Hollande over Sarkozy. But, it is the French way.

Americans were stupid enough to give Barry Obonzo four more years to destroy the country, so why not the French voters giving Hollande seven years to destroy France?

16 posted on 04/29/2013 4:02:27 AM PDT by MasterGunner01
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With Putin in Russia and the French citizens showing much more moral backbone than the sheeple in the USA, we will deserve the disaster that will come to America as a result of the Left’s attack on the traditional family.


17 posted on 04/29/2013 4:47:11 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Jim Robinson
This is a fight between two visions of the heritage of France .....

             Major John Villeneuve                                                                          pansy john f'ng kerry

18 posted on 04/29/2013 4:47:46 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: gleeaikin

An interest form of conservatism. They have long had the right to wives, mistresses and female lovers - but, by God, no man on the side. Or it is the Catholic ethos in a weakened form - as long as the sex could theoretically be procreative, it is moral.


19 posted on 04/29/2013 4:48:32 AM PDT by tbw2
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who would’ve thought the french would find their nerve before Americans

goes to show just how far we’ve fallen

although i’m happy for france as there could be hope for them... i’m even more saddened for America


20 posted on 04/29/2013 5:00:02 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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