Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 05:10:21 -1000 From: lambda@aloha.net (Martin Rice) Subject: FR 398: FRENCH SSM LEGISLATION Aloha kakahiaka kakou. This is *very* interesting, marriage and *citizenship* to boot . . . . Mahalo to kaikua`ana Robert for the "heads up." >From: RPeck123 >Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 00:30:17 EST >To: mango@pixi.com, Porte2@aol.com, Cycletime@aol.com, Christo462@aol.com, > mztata@hgea.org >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Subject: same gender marriage issue - france >Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) >X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.pixi.com id >TAA26626 >Status: RO > > > Here's the big news about France! > > I have news to send to you about the same gender marriage proposal > which has come up before the French parlement just yesterday - > (it had been stuffed to the bottom of the parlementary issues basket for many > months now ) > It is of huge importance, and interest to me personally - because Christian, > my > spouse is French - and to be together we must currently periodically commute > 14,000 miles. > > The French law - if passed is interesting - because (among other things) it > would offer foreigners the same benefits of marriage - including > citizenship (or close to it : permanent visa status actually - which = much > the same thing) - > > The bad news is that it may flounder because of lack of any grass roots > support in France - amongst gays themselves! SO far - with the big vote only > three weeks away - Christian is the only person in the south of France to sign > a petitionary letter to the parlement! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (I received this > dismal news today!). > > Christian is currently in France - and is constant contact with the Parlement > in Paris. I will send you more news as it is happening ALONG WITH THE TEXT OF > THE PROPOSED LAW as soon as I can get a copy of it. > > here is a list of people in Paris (actors, writers, directors of movies, > ministers, painters, and singers) who will be addressing the Parlement in > favor of same gender marriage: > > > Liste des premiers signataires : > > Jean-Jacques Aillagon; Geneviève Andueza; Isabelle Aubret; Gérard Bach- > Ignasse; Elisabeth Badinter; Jean-Luc; Bennahamias; Pierre Bergé; Maurice > Blanchot; Pierre Bourdieu; Philippe Boursier; Henri Caillavet; Renaud Camus; > Jean-Pierre Chemla; Hélène Cixous; Wavier Collombier; Denis D'Arcangelo; > Etienne Daho; Danièle Delorme; Mylène Demongeot; Claudette El Eini; Michel > Feher; Jocelyne François; Christian Giacomin; Christophe Girard; Gisèle > Halimi; Jean-Luc Hennig; Marie-Anne Isler-Beguin; Jean-Jacques Jauffret; > Pierre Laurent; Alain Lipietz; Roger Madec; F > > Jean-Pierre Mignard; Janine Mossuz-Lavau; Geneviève Pastre; Elula Perin; > Michelle Perrot; Jürgen Pletsch; Jan-Paul Pouliquen; Denis Quinqueton; Willy > Rozenbaum; Marc Simenon; Jean-Pierre Vernant; Antoine Waechter; Bernard > Wallon; Emmanuel Wallon; Jean-Pierre Worms; Anne Zelinsky > > > Aloha, > Robert Peck, > Kula, Maui HI > rpeck123@aol.com > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Last night I was sitting with our committee chair and he had a [coffee] mug from the Caymans. There is a town called Hell there and the mug has "Hell" and a likeness (assumed) of a devil. Given the recent cruise-ship flap, we can now definitively say that the fundies have got it all wrong: We couldn't go to Hell if we wanted to!" --Gabriel Lampert ~~~~~~ Fred and Martin, 25 years, yet strangers before all but 18.8% of the law. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~