christine boutin

Christine Boutin (born in Levroux, Indre, France on February 6, 1944) is a French politician. As of 2004, she is a deputy to the French National Assembly for the Yvelines dpartement. 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 scored 1.19% on the first round of balloting.

Quotes

L'homosexualit doit-elle devenir une rfrence sociale et institutionnelle ?
" Must homosexuality become a social and institutional reference? "

Le PACS interroge sur le regard que notre socit pose sur l'homosexualit et sur la souffrance que portent la majorit des membres de la communaut qui la composent.
" The PACS questions the outlook that our society has over homosexuality and the suffering that the majority of the community bears. "

Proposer aux personnes du mme sexe de vivre une caricature de la famille est une dcision qui leur manque de respect. On leur donne une illusion. On recouvre leur souffrance d'un voile pudibond.
" 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 modesty. "

Mais de l considrer ce comportement homosexuel comme anodin et le mettre socialement sur le mme pied que la relation entre un homme et une femme, ...
" 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, ... "

Il n'est pas en notre pouvoir de modifier une ralit qui existe depuis l'origine du monde, savoir que c'est la relation naturelle entre l'homme et la femme qui fonde la socit et la fait vivre. Fortes de cette vidence, les socits se sont toujours attaches protger cette relation naturelle, vitale, de ce qui pouvait la fausser ou l'amoindrir. Ainsi s'explique le refus du proslytisme homosexuel et la rprobation plus ou moins forte que l'on rencontre dans toutes les socits.
" 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. "

Ds lors, se mettre considrer, par le droit, comme des conjoints deux personnes homosexuelles, assimiler leur vie commune un mariage, et, dans cette logique, leur offrir la possibilit d'adopter et d'lever des enfants serait, pour la socit, une conduite absurde et suicidaire.
" 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 "

Il est vident que les personnes homosexuelles doivent tre accueillies et respectes comme toute personne, d'autant plus qu' l'origine de leur situation existe souvent la souffrance.
" 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. "

Qu'est ce que l'homosexualit, sinon l'impossibilit d'un tre pouvoir atteindre l'autre dans sa diffrence sexuelle ? ... L'homosexualit rige en norme sociale construirait un environnement social favorable l'tablissement de l'exclusion comme rgle sociale. C'est pour cette raison fondamentale qu'aucune civilisation ne l'a rige comme rgle de vie.
" 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. "

Toutes ces acrobaties biologiques et sociales pour justifier l'accession d'un couple homosexuel la paternit ou la maternit me semblent relever d'un fantasme narcissique d'auto-engendrement.
" 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. "

Quant au plan collectif, une socit qui mettrait sur le mme plan l'homosexualit et l'htrosexualit travaillerait sa propre disparition et pourrait compromettre gravement l'ducation de ses enfants.
" 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. "

... toutes les civilisations qui l'ont reconnue et justifi l'homosexualit comme un mode de vie normal ont connu la dcadence.
All civilizations that recognized and justified homosexuality as a normal lifestyle met decadence.