Gérard+Cornu


 * La Famille - by Gerard Cornu**

Marriage is: Civil union is: Homosexual partnership is: The codal protection of rights in civil unions and homosexual partnerships should not be cut and pasted from the regime on marriage.
 * The common denominator that links all citizens.
 * One of the most important symbols of an open society.
 * An institutional monopoly to be safeguarded by legislators.
 * An institution based on three pillars: monogamy, exogamy ("out-breeding"), and the duality of the sexes.
 * Threatened by the institutionalization of civil union and homosexual partnerships.
 * A sub-marriage, which threatens to take a dominant position.
 * A contradiction in terms.
 * Rights and advantages, without the same obligations as a marriage.
 * A regime of concubines.
 * Contradicts marriage.
 * A life in common, with all the perks, but no marriage rights.

Ratio: **"Le mariage, roc et symbole; le pacs** (i.e., civil unions and homosexual partnerships)**, poudre et sable."**