Cardinal André Vingt - Trois, Archbishop of Paris.

Sandro Magister The Reawakening of the Church in France.

Snippet from Inside The Vatican magazine, January 2013.

Originally published in L'Espresso magazine, December 7, 2012.

"Its opposition to the law on homosexual marriages is finding agreement even among non - Catholics and nonbelievers.

"The archbishop of Paris is at the helm of the new course..."

Among his allies:

"[T]he feminist philosopher  Sylviane Agacinski, wife of the socialist (and Protestant) former prime minister Lionel Jospin.

"She has strongly criticized the gender studies which present sexual differences as a cultural construction, and has warned of the serious  consequences, that, for example, procreation through insemination in couples composed of two women could have on a child..."

Also:

"Clear opposition to the law on homosexual marriage has been expressed by the chief rabbi of France, Gilles Bernheim, and the president of the French Council of Muslim Faith, Mohammed Moussaoui...

"The Archbishop of Paris is no longer a general without an army.

"The bishops are with him.

"They have elected him president of the episcopal conference ..."

Way to go, good people! :)