France Plans To Legalize Gay Marriage

In a recent article titled "France set to ban words 'mother' and 'father' on official documents under plans to legalize gay marriage," the author informs readers that France plans to legalize gay marriage and ban the words "mother" and "father" from legal documents.

I believe that homosexual couples deserve the same rights that heterosexuals do. Gay people deserve the same rights that everyone else has. 

The article states "France is set to ban the words 'mother' and 'father' from all official documents under new plans to legalize gay marriage and give equal adoption rights to homosexual and heterosexual couples." I agree that gay marriage should be legal and that homosexual couples and heterosexual couples deserve equal adoption rights. The article also states "Under the proposed law, only the word 'parents' would be used in marriage ceremonies for all heterosexual and same-sex couples, a move that has sparked widespread outrage, The Telegraph reports." I agree that "parents" should be used, rather than "mother" and "father". But I disagree with the fact that it would cause "widespread outrage".

"'Gay marriage would herald a complete breakdown in society,' Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, the head of the French Catholic Church, told Christian’s RFC radio last week." I don't understand why the legalization of gay marriage would cause a breakdown in society. There's nothing wrong with gay marriage, and it doesn't affect straight people.

As I was reading this article, I was reminded of the time I heard on the radio that "Don't ask, don't tell" was repealed. Society is beginning to recognize gay rights and beginning to give them more rights, as you can tell from this article, and the fact that "Don't ask, don't tell" was repealed.