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French Government Report Says No to Homosexual Marriage, Parenthood 2/21/2006 Commission stands firm on the family’s role to develop children.
In a surprise move for a European country, an important French government report says no to homosexual “marriage” and adoption by homosexual couples.
The primary reason cited for the report’s finding, according to Lifesite.net, is “to affirm and protect children’s rights and the primacy of those rights over adults’ aspirations.” Therefore, the report, released on January 27 after more than a year of investigation, declares that families are structures meant to create a healthy and safe environment for the development of children.
“This is a breath of fresh air from Europe, which has been drifting toward sexual anarchy for years,” said Robert Knight, director of Concerned Women for America’s Culture & Family Institute. “The French have it exactly right – they see that the campaign for homosexuals to acquire children by adoption is being driven not by what’s best for kids but by adults’ desires. And they see that the fiction of homosexual ‘marriage’ is directly related to the dangerous claim of homosexuals’ ‘right’ to acquire children. Visionaries like pro-family commission member Christine Boutin had a lot to do with this return to sanity.”
The Information Mission, a commission set up at the request of the President of the French National Assembly, released the report: the Parliamentary Report on the Family and the Rights of Children.
“Making marriage available to same-sex couples therefore presupposes that they will also be given the right to adopt and receive medical assistance for procreation, and even the right to use surrogate mothers, because such couples are not fertile. The Mission is divided on this subject. It considered the consequences for the child’s development and the construction of his or her identity of creating a fictitious filiation [parental relationship] by law – two fathers, or two mothers which is biologically neither real nor plausible,” said the report.
The report said no to both marriage and adoption for specific reasons. “Marriage is not merely the contractual recognition of the love between a couple; it is a framework that imposes rights and duties, and that is designed to provide for the care and harmonious development of the child,” it said.
“It would in fact be incoherent, if couples were regarded as equal, to remove the prohibition on marriage and preserve it for filiation.”
The findings of the report come as a surprise, while most European countries are debating homosexual “marriage.” What France will do in response remains to be seen, but the report is clear that a home with a married mother and father is best for children.
For more on this topic, click here. The full report is available, in French, here.
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