If
"civil war is the worst of all evils"
(Blaise Pascal), before opening one in France because the United States has gone mad, it is necessary to recall some basic principles by which we live, in peace, if not in harmony.
In matters of rights, and in particular with regard to mores, it is not the judge who decides, but the people, directly or, generally, through their representatives.
This is what the Constitutional Council solemnly reaffirmed when, in two decisions (rendered on January 28, 2011 and May 17, 2013), it ruled that it was up to the legislator to prevent or authorize marriage homosexual by using the same recital of principle:
"It is not for the Constitutional Council to substitute its assessment for that of the legislator for the taking into account, in matters of marriage, of this difference in situation"
(with regard to sex).
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