French Supreme Court Rejects Gay Marriage

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[jacknhoo]

French Supreme Court Rejects Gay Marriage

March 14, 2007 2:46 p.m. EST

Julie Farby - All Headline News Staff Writer Paris, France (AHN) - In a landmark ruling, France's highest court ruled the first marriage by a homosexual couple in the country was unlawful, thereby annulling the June, 5 2004 union between the two men.

After Stephane Charpin and Bertrand Charpentier were married in a civil ceremony in a town in the southwest Bordeaux region of France, a flurry of legal challenges soon followed, all of which ruled against the gay couple's right to wed.

France's Supreme Court, which ruled that under French law "marriage is a union between a man and a woman," backed the earlier decision by an appeals court in Bordeaux, which also ruled against the men's marriage.

Charpin and Charpentier, who have been the only gay couple to marry in France since their 2004 union ceremony, vowed to bring their case to the European Court of Human Rights to fight the ruling.

[jacknhoo]

Marriage is a union between a man and a woman and it is sad and a shame, but necessary, that we must amend our Constitution to state something that is so true.

[Darkwolf377]

The libs I know won't be telling me how much more the French are anymore.

[Ultra Sonic 007]

Moral absolutes/Homosexual agenda ping!

The French doing something right? O.o

[jacknhoo]

I know, its funny that way and I suppose, now, I'll have to admit that as a country they're not quite as lost as I thought.

[Brilliant]

They're obviously bigots.

[conservatrice]

Actually, they've had something similar to "civil unions" for years. Now, the gays aren't satisfied with that and want to be called "married." The same thing will happen here in civil union states.

[Tribune7]

Good for France

[BaBaStooey]

I wonder if Anthony Kennedy will take note of this ruling, he of course, of the "foreign law is relevant in SCOTUS decisions" crowd.

[Katydidnt]

Although I agree with the French court's outcome, I wonder how much influence their pending Muslim majority had on the decision. Would they have arrived at he same conclusion if they didn't fear rioting in the streets?

If there were a scorecard for life how many points would one get for arriving at the correct decision based on expediency and fear, rather than right VS wrong?

Katie
(Somehow I can't complete my new tag line "...violence on those who would do us harm." -- George Orwell)

[jacknhoo]

Brilliant wrote, "They're obviously bigots."

Realizing and practicing a natural good is not about condemning others and it is not bigotry. It is not something dreamed up by ruling elites to keep us in our place. It is the natural complementarity of human nature and the very soul of marriage, the joining of the two sexes, is natural law. The Catholic Clergy will not marry dogs to humans, and its not out of bigotry to the dogs that they refuse to do it. Clerks will not issue dog licenses to cats, and it is not out of bigotry toward cats that they refuse to do it.

Your slogan of intimidation is baseless and meaningless and, not so, not so Brilliant.

[B Knotts]

I'm guessing he was being sarcastic.

[jacknhoo]

I hope it was and apologize, Brilliant, if it was sarcasm.