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  1. Dec 2022
    1. It takes a certain 'violence,' if one is homosexual, to want a child [IIfaut une certaine 'violence,' quand on est homosexuel, pour vouloirun enfant].... I think that there is no absolute right to a child, sincethe right implies an increasingly artificial fabrication of children. Inthe interests of the child, one cannot efface its double origin.^^

      I think, unfortunately, that this mindset is still present in France. The debate on having a direct effect on life is still going. Here it's about the "artificial fabrication," but even though IVF have been legalized for lesbian couples and single mother, surrogacy is still illegal everywhere in France. For me, it even goes further than LGBT questions, as we still see debates over abortions and euthanasia.

    2. limit the rights offered to gay and lesbian relation-ships to preclude access to reproductive technologies and adoption

      And it worked. Indeed, France legalized adoption for LGBT couples only in 2013, in opposition to the US, where it became legal in 2002.

  2. Oct 2022
  3. Sep 2022
    1. I beg you, my brothers, do not actso wickedly.

      Could be a way to show that the people of sodom were engaging in "immoral" sexual activities. This theory is supported by the next sentence that claims "I have two daughters who have not known a man; let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you please; only do nothing to these men." Here we can see that he would rather let sodom's men rape his own daughters rather than let them have sex with other men.

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      same question as before, how do you prove, for example, in cases of rape, that the woman consented to the penetrative act?

    3. and now in London there is an outbreak of this deadlyperversion...which will surely rot us into ruin...we shall as surely perish from moralrottenness as Sodom and Gomorrah.’

      For him, the whole fates of London rely on bible culture. The city and all its inhabitants will perish due to sexual "immorality" as they did in Sodom.

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      Fourteen = age of sexual consent ?