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France: Hollande’s Lead in Vote for President Bodes Well for Marriage Equality

Monday, April 23rd, 2012

Hollande's Lead in Vote for President Bodes Well for Gay Marriage in FranceSocialist challenger Francois Hollande on Sunday led Nicolas Sarkozy in France’s first round of voting, setting up a May 6 runoff between the two presidential candidates.

Hollande narrowly led Sarkozy with an estimated 3 percentage points, 28.4% to 25.5%. Marine Le Pen trailed with 20 percent of the vote.

“The people have mobilized in a massive way in the selection and a real level of participation. Eighty percent turnout is a big number. What has been shown is that I’m in the lead. I want to thank you all warmly,” Hollande told supporters on Sunday night.

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France: Sarkozy Reaffirms Opposition to Marriage Equality Before Election

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

France and Marriage EqualityIncumbent president Nicolas Sarkozy has re-affirmed his opposition to marriage equality ahead of this weekend’s elections in France.

M Sarkozy told France Inter radio that one does not choose to be gay and spoke of the growing social acceptance of gay relationships and said he hated “all forms of homophobia and racism”.

However, he said as he campaigns for a second five-year term, that he views the definition of a family as one mother and one father and he will not go so far as to legally change it.

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France: Gay Activists Protest for Marriage Equality

Sunday, April 15th, 2012

Paris, FranceAhead of France’s presidential election, two men were symbolically wed today in Lannion to highlight the country’s lack of marriage equality.

David Humily and Julien Abernot were part of “Wedding for All” protests held across the country. A member of the “Paris convent of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” did the officiating.

The Sisters is an order of queer nuns founded in San Francisco in 1979 that has chapters all over the world.

Full Story from The Advocate

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France: Gay Muslims Say Muhammad Would Approve Their Marriage

Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

French Muslim Couple and MarriageA Muslim who became the first French man to marry his same sex partner in an Islamic religious ceremony has said that if the prophet Muhammad were alive today he would be happy to marry same sex couples.

Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed was born in Algeria in 1977 and moved to Paris as a child. He told The Local about his difficult upbringing in a religious family. “I was an effeminate child and that is not seen as a good thing in men so I had to make myself more masculine,” he said.

“At first my father thought it was an illness, then he thought it was just a phase.” He suffered physical as well as verbal abuse. “My brother often beat me up, so it was quite violent and complicated.”

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France: President Sarkozy, in Tight Election, Has Apparent Change of Heart on Marriage Equality

Friday, March 30th, 2012

French Marriage Equality?France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy may change his views on same-sex marriage in order to defeat his rival in the upcoming elections, the conservative right wing website Life Site News reported.

Sarkozy is falling behind his opponent Francois Hollande, who supports marriage equality, in the polls. Now the French president says he will create a marriage ceremony that would be performed by the government. The new measure would be part of France’s Pact of Civil Solidarity (PACS), which is similar to a civil union in the U.S.

“I am ready to propose — it would be a matter of a decree-that the marriage ceremony, for a homosexual PACS, be made a right,” Sarkozy said in an interview with the French magazine Tetu. He added, “the ceremony would permit a true social acceptance” same-sex relationships.

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France: By Snubbing Marriage Equality, Sarkozy May Lose Gay Vote

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

Sarkozy and Marriage EqualitySome 13 years after France adopted the PACS civil union, gay rights campaigners are calling on France’s presidential candidates to grant full marriage and parenting rights to same-sex couples, and polls suggest that it could be a strategic mistake not to hear what they have to say.

Just days after he was elected in 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy made a personal address to the French gay community via a recorded video. Speaking of “the difference between lust and love”, he promised to introduce a marriage-type contract which, save for adoption, would give same-sex couples the same rights as their heterosexual counterparts.

Five years on, the contract has long been forgotten. In an interview with Le Figaro Magazine this month, the president said that he had later “come to realise” that the plan had been an unconstitutional one, and that he was now decidedly against marriage equality. “In these troubled times,” he told the rightwing magazine, “we shouldn’t be clouding the image of such a crucial social institution.”

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France: President Sarkozy Won’t Support Marriage Equality

Monday, February 13th, 2012

France's Sarkozy and Marriage EqualityIn an interview with the conservative French magazine, Le Figaro, France’s president, Nicolas Sarkozy, said that he would not support gay marriage in his re-election platform, Life Site News reported.

“In troubled times, when our society needs to keep its bearings, I don’t think that it is necessary to blur the image of this essential social institution that is marriage,” Sarkozy said.

Even though Sarkozy will not back marriage equality the president claims he will support some rights for gays, such as inheritance rights. He also said, however, that he does not agree with civil unions because it would “tend to harm the institution of marriage.”

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France: Support for Marriage Equality Climbs 20% Since 2000

Sunday, January 15th, 2012

France Marriage Equality PollFrench officials have denied a report that President Nicolas Sarkozy is preparing to include gay marriage in his re-election platform, Business Week reported.

Valerie Pecresse, a spokeswoman for the government, messaged to her followers on Twitter that the claim, run in the paper Liberation, was not accurate.

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According to a poll released Saturday, support for marriage equality has grown by 20 percent since 2000. The BVA opinion poll for Le Parisien newspaper found that 63 percent of the 971 adults surveyed favor the legalization of gay marriage.

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France: Spokesman Says Sarkozy Won’t Add Marriage Equality to Platform

Saturday, January 14th, 2012

Sarkozy and Marriage EqualityValerie Pecresse, the French government spokeswoman, denied a report in Liberation newspaper today that said Nicolas Sarkozy may include gay marriage in his re-election platform.

Pecresse, a minister in the president’s Union for a Popular Movement party, said in a posting on her official Twitter account that Sarkozy “didn’t change his mind, he is not favorable to gay marriage.”

Liberation reported that Sarkozy, who will probably announce his intention to run for a second term in the coming weeks, may include a marriage or a “civil union” equivalent to a full-fledged marriage in his platform. The most conservative groups within his party oppose this, the newspaper said.

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France: Gay Couple Files Suit for Recognition of Their Spanish Marriage

Saturday, December 24th, 2011

French Gay Couple Sues for Marriage EqualityA gay couple has filed a legal challenge to have France recognize their Spanish marriage, France’s Liberation reported.

Manuel de Aguirre, a Spanish engineer living in France since 1969, and Antonio Damieta, who holds dual French and Spanish citizenship, were married last February in the Spanish consulate in Cape Town, South Africa. Spain legalized gay marriage in 2005.

The couple attempted to have their union recognized upon their return to Paris, but were denied.

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