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If all goes according to plan, France could become the ninth European country to legalize gay marriage by 2013.
Not only do numerous polls indicate that French citizens support gay marriage, but President Francois Hollande declared his support for both marriage equality and adoption rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) couples during his campaign, Le Monde reported via Worldcrunch.
At present, Belgium, Denmark, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain and Sweden recognize same-sex marriage. In France, same-sex and heterosexual civil unions, which offer limited benefits for couples, have been legal since 1999, Reuters reports.
What? Equality for citizens regardless of sexual orientation? The sky is falling! We can't have that here in the US. After all, equality is not one of our principles.
Good for them. Outside of a few contemporary W. Europe countries, the continent does not agree with their pro-gay stance.
Spain, Portugal, France, Sweden, Iceland, Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium.....one by one.
The USA is now sandwiched between Canada and Mexico, both of which have gay marriage. Argentina is a fount of progressivism on the issue in Latin America...and perhaps its no coincidence its one of the best places to live on THAT continent.
"The continent" (I assume you mean Eastern Europe, which can't manage to figure out how to keep its young people from fleeing to the aforementioned Western Europe).... has a long way to catch up, in more ways than one.
Just wait till those car burning North African/French Islamists who are bowing down 5 times a day in the streets of Paris get a load of this news.
Muslims are marginalized in France. Whether they "like it or not" is of no consequence. And if they don't like it, they can go back to Alegeria., Morocco or wherever.
Some people are just not cut out for life in free societies or modern Western Civilization. Not just Muslims, either.
Just wait till those car burning North African/French Islamists who are bowing down 5 times a day in the streets of Paris get a load of this news.
I wonder where the gay marriage issue will go once Muslims become the majority in several of these countries? It's a well known fact that the Muslim world is becoming more Islamic, not less, unlike the Christian nations. I give it 10 years, at most, when Turkey falls to the radical clerics. The EU wanted Turkey in so bad before, I wonder if they'll still want Turkey in the EU even with the continuing Islamification of society there.
Just wait till those car burning North African/French Islamists who are bowing down 5 times a day in the streets of Paris get a load of this news.
The ones in the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, etc., have learned how to live with it. The ones in France will too. They have zero political power anyway.
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