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French
President Denounces Same Sex Marriages
French President Jacques
Chirac denounced gay marriage June 4 during a speech to mothers of large
families.
"The French Republic has
a duty not only to recognize and defend the role of the family in our society
but also to protect its legal basis in the heart of our Civil Code -- I
am referring to marriage law -- against anything that might damage it,"
he said.
"We should not take the risk
of distorting this law or making it banal by extending it to cover other
contemporary arrangements for social life, which would take it far away
from the values on which the family is based."
Parliament will consider
legislation later this year aimed at granting registered gay couples most
of the rights and obligations of heterosexual spouses.
Same-Sex
French Kissing by Force is Rape in Holland
Holland's Supreme Court has
ruled that a forced same-sex French kiss constitutes rape, reported De
Gay Krant.
The victim filed suit after
a 46-year-old acquaintance with whom he had worked on an oil rig broke
into his home in Spijkenisse and kissed him.
Vietnam
Bans Gay Marriage
Vietnam's national assembly
has banned gay marriage, Agence France-Presse reported.
Legislators acted after several
homosexual couples tied the knot in recent months, distressing local officials
who were unable to stop them, the news service said.
After the legislation passed,
Communist Party officials descended on the Vinh Long home of Cao Tien Duyen,
23, and Hong Kim Huong, 30, and secured their signature on a promise that
they would never again live together. The two women had wed March 7 in
a large public ceremony.
Rex Wockner's weekly international
news reports dating back to May 1994 can be searched at http://www.wockner.com.
The reports in their original form are archived at http://www.qrd.org/qrd/www/world/wockner.html,
which also archives Wockner's Quote Unquote column and some of his longer
gay-press articles.
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