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Contents:
- MEET FRANCE’S FIRST MARRIED GAY COUPLE
- ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
MEET FRANCE’S FIRST MARRIED GAY COUPLE
The northern Italian cy of Padua has started removg the nam of non-blogil gay mothers om their children’s birth certifit unr new legislatn passed by the “tradnal fay-first” ernment of Prime Mister Grgia Meloni. * france gay couples *
France’s first gay marriage, officiated the town hall of Montpellier ont of hundreds of people, was as much the culmatn of a bter polil battle as the us of a great love. (MORE: France Legaliz Gay Marriage Dpe Vol and Angry Opposn).
For months Paris streets have been racked wh vlent clash that have drawn enraged crowds onto the streets to prott agast a central policy of Hollan’s Socialist Party, which vowed s electn mpaign a year ago to legalize gay marriage.
ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
Even after the French Senate passed the bill legalizg gay marriage two weeks ago, the protts did not let up. As Aut and Boile were takg their vows on Wednday, Bno Vercken, a member of the polil board of the right-wg Christian Democratic Party, was tellg France 24 Televisn that the battle was not over, spe the hard-won rights of gay upl. The issue, he says, would ntue to foc on stoppg gay upl om procreatg.
Durg months of fierce bat on the floor of France’s Natnal Assembly and on the streets, the schism among French voters has explod around the issue of nuclear fai, rather than around homosexualy self. While the law now allows gay upl to adopt children, stops short of permtg them to have blogil children through assisted reproductn — an issue that general remas highly ntent, even for heterosexual upl, this largely Catholic untry.
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
“We need a father and a mother, ” Vercken said on televisn, echog the major argument that has been phed for months by gay-marriage protters.
The tensy of gay-marriage protts has surprised many, perhaps bee France has a fairly progrsive attu toward marriage and relatnships. And Bertrand Delanoë, who has been mayor of Paris sce 2001, is openly gay, a fact that is accepted by most Parisians whout qutn.
TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
For Hollan, his succs makg gay marriage legal has been polilly ccial. But the bter actns over gay parentg shows ltle signs of easg. The anizatn, which has surveyed thoands of French cizens on gay marriage durg the past months, found that voters creasgly grew acctomed to the ia as the months of polil bate wore on; today, about two-thirds of those polled said they were favor of gay marriage.
The opposn to gay parentg remas strong, however. Latt polls taken last week found between 45% and 50% oppose adoptn for gay parents, and the figur tend to skew higher when assisted reproductn is discsed. In a recent Ifop poll, two-thirds of those intifyg themselv as grandparents opposed gay parentg, a sharp difference om younger French voters.