Ten years after the adoption of marriage for all, the former Minister of Justice and bearer of the text, Christiane Taubira, believes that the debate is closed.
On April 23, 2013, Parliament adopted the opening of marriage and adoption to same-sex couples. Ten years after, “I would do it again a thousand times, even if I was told in advance that there would be this violence”said Sunday, April 23 on France Inter the former Minister of Justice Christiane Taubira.
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“I don’t really feel proud,” explains Christiane Taubira, “because it was a completely fair fight and there were antecedents, with the militant struggles of homosexual people and the various legislative processes: decriminalization of homosexuality in 1982 or the Pacs in 1999”. The former Keeper of the Seals says “register” in a line, marked by many other elected officials: “I am happy to have had the opportunity to bring a law of freedom, equality and to widen the field of rights”, she summarizes.
“The worst for me was the homophobic attacks”
While the debates were very virulent at the time, the former Minister of Justice was targeted by the opposition to this law: “I was attacked with great virulence”, testifies Christiane Taubira. “I had to submit to reinforced protection, even if despite this, people managed to reach me or touch me. But the worst for me was the homophobic attacks”.
Ten years later, certain elected officials and current ministers (Jean-François Copé, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, that of the Ecological Transition Christophe Béchu) assure that they were wrong and that they would vote for this law today. today: “We would like to reply ‘all that for that!’launches Christiane Taubira, except that I think it’s up to the people who have been bruised by these insulting remarks and their galvanizing effects on the most aggressive of La Manif pour tous to say what they feel about it. Personally, I’m not prepared to act like it’s trivial.”
“Let these people manage with their remorse.”
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On April 23, 2013, Christiane Taubira ended her speech by addressing LGBT teenagers directly. “Then and still today”she says, “I was extremely tormented by what the teenagers had heard in the hemicycle” and within “La Manif pour tous”: “There were reactionaries who tired us with their horrors, their nightmares about the change of civilization and the end of humanity with reproduction. That’s why I reserved the last words of this battle for them.”
“Our freedoms are always liable to be threatened”, warns Christiane Taubira, even if she does not envisage going back on marriage for all: “I think it’s over. The political figures who, for the 2017 presidential election for example, promised the repeal of the law are done with it. Not out of a progressive spirit but because they understood that there is no there is more echo in society.”