France is being forced to reassess its ban on same-sex marriage as a lesbian couple’s ten-year legal battle (Corrine Cestino and Sophie Hasslauer, pictured) will finally be ruled on by the country’s Constitutional Council Friday.
France prides itself on its human rights record and its national motto of “Liberty, equality, and fraternity”. However, for a country famed for its ‘laissez-faire’ attitude towards love and sex, there is a puzzling contradiction: gay couples do not have the right to marry.
Corrine Cestino and Sophie Hasslauer (pictured) have been in a relationship for almost 14 years and have four children. Furthermore, the couple already have a legally recognised civil partnership, which is known as the “pacs” in France. For the couple in question though, it is not marriage.
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