France’s president has signed into law a controversial bill making the country the ninth in Europe, and 14th globally, to legalise gay marriage, reports the BBC.
On Friday, the Constitutional Council rejected a challenge by the opposition, clearing the way for Francois Hollande to sign the bill.
The deeply unpopular Hollande said: “I have taken [the decision]; now it is time to respect the law of the Republic.”
The first ‘gay wedding’ could be held 10 days after the bill’s signing.
The Constitutional Council ruled that same-sex marriage “did not run contrary to any constitutional principles,” and that it did not infringe on “basic rights or liberties or national sovereignty”.
It said the interest of the child would be paramount in adoption cases, cautioning that legalising same-sex adoption would not automatically mean the “right to a child”.
50% of the French electorate oppose adoption of children by homosexuals and the opposition group Manif Pour Tous say that a majority of the electorate oppose Hollande’s flagship measure.
New Zealand legalised ‘gay marriage’ last month. France is now the 14th country to overturn God’s institution of marriage in which a man joins a woman in a one-flesh union. Commentators have pointed out that basic anatomy denies the ability to be ‘one flesh’ to two homosexuals, mandating a redefinition of marriage.
France is also the ninth country in Europe to allow same-sex marriage. The others are Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain.
South Africa, Canada, Uruguay and Argentina have also changed the definition of marriage.
In January, a protest in Paris against the bill by Manif Pour Tous attracted some 340,000 people according to police – one of the biggest public demonstrations in France in decades. Organisers put the figure at 800,000.
Last month, a youth organiser for Manif Pour Tous, Samuel Lafont, was attacked at Odeon métro station by a homosexual gang. He was stabbed in the back six times, as well as sustaining other injuries. Two persons accompanying him were also hurt.
The following morning there were tweets on Twitter that celebrated what happened. One stated that having no news from Lafont for hours, s/he hoped that Lafont was dead but “not from worry”.
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The following morning there were tweets on Twitter that celebrated what happened and wished Lafont dead. He and his friends are now recovering.
France was always at the head of humanism/secularism so in this day and age do we expect anything less from across the Channel?
God says:
(Psalm 92:7 ) When the wicked spring up like grass, And when all the workers of iniquity flourish, It is that they may be destroyed forever.
Because:
(Psalm 34:21) Evil shall slay the wicked, And those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.