Frigide Barjot, a French humorist, columnist and socialite, is a somewhat unlikely hero for marriage but a hero she has become!
At the rally for marriage last Sunday, she led a spirited public recitation of diverse voices calling on President Hollande to acknowledge their points and understand the damage his proposal to redefine marriage will cause to French children and culture should it be passed:
Here are a couple excerpts from a translation:
"...The marriage for all is a juridical denial of the most elementary reality of humanity, constituted as it is "man and woman", the only union naturally capable of siring new life.
You, President of the Republic -- Will you be the one to float a travesty--that a human being can be born of two men or of two women? "Marriage for all" inscribes fundamental discrimination into our law among children, an inequality between children who will be born of a mother and a father, and children who will be born of two fathers, and children who will be born of two mothers.
...You, President of the Republic, dialogue, working together, participatory democracy, you cannot refuse any longer the growing demand for debate, free of homophobia, which has been expressed in all the countries of the world, by means of these citizen gatherings. You have before you, on the Champ de Mars, a wide representation of the French people.
... The people ask you, Mr. President of the Republic, to SUSPEND without further delay this bill for marriage and adoption for all. It rips apart our country. The people ask you today to convoke a General Estate of the Family, Marriage, Lineage, and the Rights of the Child. In doing so we gesture toward reconciliation and coming together as a nation. We bring this to you peacefully and obediently!"
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I am thrilled to see someone take a stand and proclaim the wrongness of what is being proposed. It is so obvious that homosexual marriage is impossible and to go along with such foolishness on the part of those who are in a position to speak out against it is cowardice. Whether she speaks as a Christian or not, certainly God is using her.
Really! I was in Paris also with 1300000 of others! We do not want this law, but the president and gouvernment want to impose it on us. Mass media and press lie in known throw of the gay mairage a lot and on the number of people in PARIS this day it is unbeliveble! It is propaganda real for gay marriage!
I am a British citizen fighting for the removal of David Cameron's desire to introduce same sex marriage into British Law. Thank you for keeping me posted as to what is happening in the States and now in France. I believe we must do all we can to prevent pink power dominating our politicians with their ideas and seek to keep the sanctity of marriage, despite all its failures in broken marriages because it is the best place in which to bring up children. They need the love both of a father and a mother, not just for conception but also for all that a man and a woman bring to parenthood. May God have mercy on us and our nations.
In a way we cannot be surprised at man's rebellion against God's order for society when we have seen man's rejection of God as our Creator.
One of the best arguments that I have heard for the reality of "family!"
The French people have spoken well, respecfully. Americans should rally and speak like wise!