Feb 142013
 

(Blogmensgo, February 14, 2013) According to an Ifop poll for Femme actuelle (a French weekly) of 6 February 2013 on the unusual couples, the French state not being “uncomfortable” with the homosexual couples, but a significant minority of respondents expressed discomfort.

Lesbian couple

French people who are feeling uncomfortable… should buy a new couch. ©Photoxpress.com/Dmitri Mikitenko.

The survey asked: “Each of the following types of couples putting you uncomfortable?”
A couple composed of two men is 43% of French uncomfortable against 57% saying not being uncomfortable. Discomfort for 48% of men, while it does not bother that 38% of women. 
A lesbian couple is uncomfortable 41% of respondents against 59% who do not experience any discomfort. Again men are 43% to be bothered by female homosexuality, against 40% of women.

Other forms of atypical couples the French are “uncomfortable” in similar proportions. For example, couples where the woman is much older than the man put 41% of French people uncomfortable (against 59% who say not to be so). But when it is the man who is much older than the woman, does such a couple uncomfortable that 33% of respondents, while 67% do not experience any discomfort.

[Online Survey conducted from January 12 to 15, 2013, with 1215 people major French, according to the quota method.]

Comment. pity that details of the survey are not available online at the time this article was written.  I’m curious to see if the questionnaire included more detailed questions, if only to check out what, precisely, is the brave French “uncomfortable” about.

The fact that the survey was conducted online, but also and especially just before, during and after the homophobic demonstrations were held on January 13 – that’s a double bias unlikely to strengthen a priori credibility of such a survey.

This article has been translated from our French blog, to view the original, click here.

Philca & Matt / MensGo

(via the entire French press on 6 February 2013, which NouvelObs.com )

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Jun 202011
 

Gay marriage, a major theme for the 2012 presidential elections? © Photoxpress.com/Richard Villalon.

(BlogMensGo 20th June 2011) The French National Assembly on June 14, 2011, rejected a socialist bill to legalize gay marriage, by 293 votes against 222. Several MPs opposed to gay marriage have argued, during the parliamentary discussion of the text last week that a marriage between same sex was comparable to bestiality or polygamy, or even that it was an “aberration anthropological.”

The bill came among others from the Socialist MP Patrick Bloche, initiator of the legalization of civil solidarity pact (PACS) in 1999. The text of 2011 was only about gay marriage (“homoconjugalité”) and not same-sex parents. Political parties were not given specific voting instructions, but members from the left – four abstentions – voted for the text and most of those on the right voted against. The Socialist Party had indicated its support for the bill, while the Union for Presidential Majority (UMP, in power), the government and the New Centre (NC) showed their clear hostility to the text.

Only two members of the 313 UMP’s (Franck Riester and Henriette Martinez) had indicated before the election they would vote in favor of the text. In fact, nine UMP (including the former minister Jean-Louis Borloo, possible presidential candidate in 2012) and a NC member validated the text, while nine other UMP deputies – whose pediatrician Edwige Antier, which did not want to hear about same-sex parents – chose to abstain.

The Socialist Party’s Francois Hollande – primary socialist candidate for the presidential election – immediately reiterated their support for marriage between couples of the same sex, promising to make that a possible stake in their election campaign, one of which would have immediate priority action if elected.

It is necessary that for the French Parliament to re-enter the case, the Constitutional Council considers that such advance is essential to any legitimization of gay marriage.

France continues consequently in a hypocrisy of State, claiming the cradle of human rights while remaining behind in civilization. Seven countries of the European Union have already legalized gay marriage, but not France. As for the voting rights granted to women, France resolved – in 1944 – after countries such as Albania, Azerbaijan, Mongolia, Myanmar and El Salvador. Such an attitude does not distinguish much of France against a banana republic.

Via the world press along with Pink Paper of 20th June and AP of 14th June (in English)

This article is a translation of an original article on our French Blog.  You can read the article here.  Please note that the above links are in French unless stated otherwise.

Philca & Matt / MensGo

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