opinion polls suggest that around 55-60% of French people support gay marriage, though only about 50% approve of gay adoption.I have a personal problem with the math involved, but the article makes the point the this is a fairly serious change for France. The bill is supposed to allow for gay marriage and adoption, that's a big step in any society and the fact that hundreds of thousands of people are going to either a gay or anti gay marriage rallies shows how big of a step that is. As to why a Roman Catholic Archbishop would somehow connect gay marriage to incest and polygamy is beyond understanding, but the typical christian response would be that homosexuality is a sin and etc. The debate over the gay bill is going to last 2 weeks according to BBC, this article was published today so, hopefully, the bill gets passed by Feb. 13, 2013.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Gay France
Everyone uses different outlets as for where they get their world news. I personally have been a fan of BBC since my IB teacher in high school I was on my BBC app on my smart phone and today a article was published titled "France's parliament begins long debate on gay marriage." If anyone has been reading about France, their latest president campaigned on gay rights, therefore this was to be expected. a problem that i see with this is the fact that Obama actually campaigned for this too, yet he hasn't done anything about it. Yes, Obama has been dealing with the whole fiscal cliff episode, but still, you would think some reference would have been made. This article talks more about the reaction by the French people's reaction to the debates happening in the French Parliament. The article says,
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This was an interesting post. I would think that the president's actions against the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA (to tell the Justice Department that they're not going to support DOMA) was a huge leap in the support of gay rights and marriage. Also, he was the first sitting president or candidate to ever throw in his support to gay marriage. Each step is one closer to federal marriage rights, wouldn't you think? And as to a reference, what about his discussions of gay rights during his inaugural address?
ReplyDeleteWhat are your actual issues with the numbers involved in that article about France from the BBC? Can you explain a bit more?
Finally--make sure to create some old-fashioned MLA or APA citations/references (see schedule).