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- FRANCE TO LEGALISE GAY MARRIAGE 2013
- GAY MARRIAGE IS PROTTED FRANCE
- FIRST GAY MARRIAGE CELEBRATED FRANCE
- 08 MAR 2013 FRANCE EMBRAC GAY MARRIAGE
FRANCE TO LEGALISE GAY MARRIAGE 2013
France's new Socialist ernment will pass a law legalisg gay marriage and grantg gay upl the same rights as any married uple 2013, the untry's junr mister for fay said Friday. * gay marriage 2013 france *
France's new Socialist ernment will pass a law legalisg gay marriage and grantg gay upl the same rights as any married uple 2013, the untry's junr mister for fay said Friday.
Print Franis Hollan, who took office last month, had pledged to legalise gay marriage and adoptn durg his electn mpaign but had given no Hollan’s Socialists won an absolute majory parliamentary electns two weeks ago, the nservative UMP party, which had opposed the measure unr former print Nilas Sarkozy, n do ltle to stop .
"A law grantg full marriage stat to gay upl would brg France, which currently provis only for same-sex civil unns, to le wh fellow EU members Denmark, Portugal, Spa, Belgium, the Netherlands and would also mark a profound change French society, where more than two-thirds of people still scribe themselv as Roman Catholic, acrdg to a 2010 survey by pollster Ifop.
GAY MARRIAGE IS PROTTED FRANCE
However, fewer and fewer of them adhere to strict Roman Catholic teachgs on sexual issu or back the Vatin’s nmnatn of homosexualy.
A majory also favour allowg gay upl to adopt children.
FIRST GAY MARRIAGE CELEBRATED FRANCE
Neverthels, gay rights advot say homosexualy remas taboo many areas of public life. Media tend to e phemisms such as "long-term bachelor" to ht that someone is gay.
"Today, ’s still very difficult to put a name on thgs, as if sayg public that someone was homosexual was to vlate a taboo, " a group of gay profsnals wrote an opn piece the newspaper Le Mon on Friday, the eve of a Gay Pri march Paris.
A gay marriage law would boost Hollan’s crentials as an agent of social change the tradn of late Socialist print Franis Mterrand, who appoted France’s first female prime mister and scrapped the ath penalty. A bate on gay rights might also draw some attentn away om the enomic wo weighg on his, there is certa to be opposn om nservativ and practisg Catholics.
08 MAR 2013 FRANCE EMBRAC GAY MARRIAGE
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