Ten years ago, and despite widespread opposition, a French socialist government created a civil partnership, called the Civil Solidarity Pact (called PaCS), open to both heterosexual and same-sex couples alike. Though it was adopted after intense lobbying by « gay-rights » groups, only a very small minority of PaCS established since 1999 have concerned same-sex couples: mostly, it has grown spectacularly – at the expense of traditional marriages: 22,000 PaCS were established in 2000, but 145,000 in 2008. During the same period, the number of marriages has fallen by 10 per cent. To young couples, it seems to offer almost all of its social advantages, except perhaps for the most important one: commitment and stability.
Because of the PaCS, the institution of marriage is currently in jeopardy : this year, in the 11th district of Paris, and for the first time ever, more PaCS have been established than marriages (583 to 521, from January to October – just the year before, there had been 60% more marriages than PaCS in that district!). This district may very well predict what will soon happen in all of France, if current trends continu. This a disaster for society, especially for its weakest members: women, who can now be repudiated summarily without the safeguards marriage gave them; and children, the greatest victims of this growing instability and loss of sense of commitment.
As for those who supported the PaCS in an effort to placate gay-rights groups and avoid same-sex marriage: the reverse has happened. Never have these groups’ demands to redefine marriage been stronger. Just these last days, a judgment allowed a lesbian couple to adopt a child, and the Socialist party has called to legalize same-sex marriage and adoption.
Because we think that children need and have the right to have a Father and a Mother, we refuse this « debate » which has not been avoided by the PaCS. Actually, most same-sex couple seem uninterested in the PaCS: it main, and destructive, effects are on heterosexual couples.
10 years of disastrous social experimentation are more than enough: a group of Christian, pro-family and conservative blogs and concerned citizens have united to ask our government and our elected representatives to abolish it and to promote the traditional institution of marriage, crucial to the stability of our families. Now !
We call on you to send them an e-mail (already written) : it take twenty secondes.
