France’s gay marriage bill: nobody’s happy

France’s government have unveiled the outline of its proposed same-sex marriage law, sparking the inevitable ire of conservatives but also irking gay rights activists, who say that without fertility assistance, marriage alone is a lousy deal.

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I am so lucky to live in a

I am so lucky to live in a country where we are far gone past those questions, and where as gay parents we are very much respected as it turns out that kids of gay parents manage better than theirs friends in many aspects ranging from scholar results to general knowledge and IQ nobody know why of course but the facts and the figures are clear and crisp. and I can tell as I myself and my ex-husband educated his younger son who is today the pride of so many and the dream of thousands of girls

My ex- husband and I have

My ex- husband and I have been both loving fathers of the last son he had with his ex wife, and I have to say that I can´t help being so proud when I see that he is the best, not only of his class, he is so much more mature, educated and so much more friendly and it is an unspeakable pride to hear other parent ask their kids to take example on your´s ... most of all my worst fears dropped when I realized about a year ago how very straight he is
and @insane, remember this DIG DEEP ENOUGH IN ANY SCREAMING HOMOPHOBIC PERSON AND YOU WILL FIND AN ASHAMED FRUSTRATED AND HIDDEN GAY BACKGROUND , I am sure we understand each other

Adoption rights

I inseminated my partner in France 11 years ago. It was done at home and we have a beautiful 11 year old girl who is well balanced and very happy. My problem is that I cannot leave her anything if and when the time comes for me to die. I believe that the inheritance laws need to be changed. The childs father is American and has no financial responsibility to our child but he has all the legal rights as if he was involved in her well being. THAT is the problem not all this other stuff...

insane

This is inhumane,disgusting and evil.Remember sodom and gormorah

LOVING, not otherwise

@stevebaz I would much rather a child be in a loveing home of homosexual couple than in an "otherwise" home of heterosexual couple that you would seem to prefer. God/Mother Nature has not provided a mother and father to every child as you claim, otherwise why do we have orphanages, group homes, youth homeless shelters, etc etc? As far as I see God/Mother Nature has been making homosexuals since dawn of time, and as we live in world where not all children are provided for by biological parents they should be provided a LOVING home regardless if parents are hetero or homosexual.

Not a perfect world

There are so many abandoned children, who are without love, parental guidence, security, food, etc, and if they are to be adopted by an LGBT couple, then I am all for it.

We don't live in a perfect world where we all have the luxury of a loving Mom and Dad. Some children are starving for affection, attention and love. I would rather a child has 2 Mothers or 2 Fathers taking care of them, instead of nothing at all.

The comments by "STEVEBAZ" below make no sense. He is clearly one of the lucky ones with a Mom and Dad. Wake up and smell the coffee, Stevebaz, not everyone is in a fortunate position like yourself.

No mother and father poor little ...

Catherine Michau - “A child doesn’t have the right to a mother and father,” she told FRANCE 24. “It has the right to two loving parents.”

A child does have the right to a mother and father, loving or otherwise, and God/Mother Nature organised it that way. It’s a funny old world when Jenny come latelys turn millenia on its head and strike out Mum and Dad, because it suits them - and, forget the child, ‘cos we want.

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