Christine Boutin
Christine Boutin (born February 6, 1944) is a French politician.She was born in Levroux, Indre, France. As of 2004, she is a deputy to the French National Assembly for the Yvelines ''départment'.
She became famous in 1998 for opposing the PACS domestic parternship plan, arguing that the government should not encourage homosexuality and was criticized for homophobia.
She was a candidate in the 2002 French presidential election where she score 1.19% on the first round of balloting.
Quotes
" Must homosexuality become a social and institutional reference? "
" The PACS questions the outlook that our society has over homosexuality and the suffering that the majority of the [homosexual community] bears. "
" Proposing to people of the same sex to live a caricature of family is a decision that lacks respect to them. They are given an illusion. Their suffering is covered by a veil of [hypocritical modesty]. "
" But, from there to considering this [homosexual] behavior as harmless and putting it socially on the same footing as the relationship between a man and a woman, [...] "
" It is not within our power to modify a reality that exists since the origin of the World, that is, that it's the natural relationship between man and woman that founds society and makes it live. From this evidence, societies have always sought to protect this natural, vital relationship against anything that could adulterate or diminish it. Thus can be explained the refusal or homosexual prozelytizing and the more or less strong reprobation that all societies. "
" Hence, beginning to consider, through Law, two homosexual persons as spouses, equalling their common life to a marriage, and within this logic, offering them the possibility to adopt and raise children would be, for society, an absurd and suicidal conduct "
" It is evident that homosexuals must be welcome and respected as anybody must be, all the more that at the origin of their situation there often is suffering. "
" What is homosexuality, except the impossibility for a being to reach the Other in the Other's sexual difference? [...] Homosexuality, elevated as a social norm, would lead to a social environment favorable to exclusion as a social rule. It's for this fundamental reason that no civilization considered it a rule of life. "
" All these biological and social acrobatics to justify a homosexual couple accessing paternity or maternity seem to me to be relevant to a narcissic fantasm of self-procreation. "
" On collective considerations, a society that would put on the same footing homosexuality and heterosexuality would work towards its own disappearance and could gravely compromise the education of its children. "
All civilizations that recognized and justified [homosexuality] as a normal lifestyle met decadence.Related links