by Hilary White
BOSTON, April 25, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Quebec resident, Louis DeSerres, added his testimony April 11, to that of Dawn Stefanowicz in hearings on homosexual “marriage” in Massachusetts. Stefanowicz had told legislators of her “traumatizing” upbringing in a homosexual household where her father introduced her to the gay subculture.
Most of the debates in Massachusetts over allowing homosexual partners to “marry” and adopt children have centred on talk of the “rights” of gay partners fully to imitate normal marriage. Little has been said by homosexual advocates on the protection or best interests of children.
DeSerres compared the decision of the French legislature to prohibit legal recognition of homosexual unions with the Canadian legislation allowing it. He said that France had differed from Canada in making concern for children a higher priority than the political or personal desires of adults. France, he said, went even further in protecting children when it restricted artificial procreation and adoption for homosexual partners. “Quite simply,” he said, “France’s laws still favor the best interests of children over adults while Canada does not.”
Massachusetts is facing a citizen initiative that would create an amendment to the state constitution to define marriage legally and permanently as being exclusively between one man and one woman. The effort has been spearheaded by family protection citizens’ groups who collected over 170,000 signatures on a petition to bring a ballot initiative to a vote in 2008.
In Canada, DeSerres said, “With same sex marriage we are now taking away the fundamental rights of our most vulnerable citizens, children.” He also warned that placing the priority on protecting “homosexual rights” has eroded freedom of speech.
While Canadian law does not recognize the priority of protecting children, French law says, “to systematically give preference to adult aspirations over respect for these rights is not possible any more.”
French parliamentarians discovered from their travels to various countries, “Countries that have opened up marriage to same sex couples have all authorized adoption by these couples and developed systems to assist procreation, including surrogate motherhood, in order to allow these couples to have children.”
De Serres told Massachusetts legislators, “Heterosexual marriage provides that a child will know and be raised by his own parents. Research demonstrates conclusively that heterosexual marriage serves children’s best interests.”
Homosexual “marriage” he said, being based on transitory and unstable personal preferences and political motives, cannot provide children with the necessary identity that natural marriage gives.
“Heterosexual marriage provides the child with a natural network of care and support from his immediate and extended biological family, including parents, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, grandparents, etc. In a world where increasing numbers of parents divorce their own children, France favors the permanent nature of biological filiation over fleeting emotions and unstable relationships. Same-sex marriage is not grounded on the biological ties.”
Read DeSerres’ testimony in full:
https://voteonmarriage.org/leghearing.shtml#louis
Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
“Gay” Subculture Left Woman Scarred from Childhood in Homosexual Home
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/apr/06041911.html