Video of the Week: France legalizes gay marriage

By Saskia Joreen on Friday, April 1, 2011 - 12:32

This week, France has become the 11th country to legalize gay marriage, narrowly missing a top ten spot.

French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, stated that he was "tired of France sagging behind" and "upholding discrimination". He went on to say, "France was embarrassingly late in giving women the right to vote, I don't want us to be last in giving gays equal rights as well."

While the pope and members of his own political party were "shocked" by Sarkozy's announcement, most young people who actually knew and had gay friends welcomed the news. The only complaint came from a third year university student who complained that her already stretched budget would be even more burdened by more wedding gifts.

Kudos to JPSNewsTV for making this video (and for supplying the press release quoted above), who have stated:

In a country where it is legal for a dead man to marry a live woman (this is actually a law in France), we must ask ourselves, why do we not declare our rights ourselves. We believe gay marriage should be legal, therefore it is.

Let's give gay people the same rights as the dead.

Well, I couldn’t have said it better myself. Happy April Fools Day!