Cofounder of Gay Rights Group Joins Anti-Gay-Marriage Front National - Polidicks

[URL="http://www.france24.com/en/20141213-france-far-right-national-front-flirting-gay-vote-chenu-philippot/"]http://www.france24.com/en/20141213-france-far-right-national-front-flirting-gay-vote-chenu-philippot/[/URL] [QUOTE]France’s far right National Front party announced Friday that the cofounder of a prominent gay rights group was joining its ranks and will be a future candidate in elections, a surprise move for a group that has long been linked to homophobic views. Party leader Marine Le Pen and Sébastian Chenu held a joint press conference in Paris to confirm he was leaving the right-wing opposition Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party to work alongside the anti-immigration National Front (FN). Chenu, a former UMP general secretary, is mostly known in France as one of the founders of GayLib, a gay rights group that also describes itself as being in the centre-right of the political spectrum. “I am joining Marine Le Pen because of her consistent views on Europe and social issues,” Chenu told reporters.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Chenu’s decision to join Le Pen, based, at least in part, on the hot-button issue of gay marriage, has nevertheless confounded observers, since the FN officially remains opposed to marriage-equality legislation France adopted in 2013, commonly referred to as the “Mariage pour tous”, or Marriage for all, law. “I will remind you that we are opposed to the marriage for all question, and that we have declared we would repeal the law,” Louis Aliot, Vice-president of the FN and a European MP, was quick to point out in an interview with Radio France International (RFI) on Friday.[/QUOTE] Kind of blunts that earlier revelation, eh?

Looks like everyone is going 180 degrees around today.

Tit for tat pretty much. Oh wow, well he seems to have his overall political views held more dearly to him than his sexual equality views.

Man, it really is opposite day.

My guess is he hates immigrants more than he wants gay marriage.

What a tool

[QUOTE=Viva;46709751]Tit for tat pretty much. Oh wow, well he seems to have his overall political views held more dearly to him than his sexual equality views.[/QUOTE] Which is kind of admirable, shows he's able to look at the big picture. [QUOTE=download;46709763]My guess is he hates immigrants more than he wants gay marriage.[/QUOTE] The article actually says that fear of Muslims is causing more French gays to support the FN

[QUOTE=The_1990;46709810]Which is kind of admirable, shows he's able to look at the big picture. [/QUOTE] I kind of want to agree, even though i disagree with what he abandoned.

And so this guy got one hundred times the hate due to being gay. I like how some people automatically assign a political view to others based on certain things like sexual orientation, and anyone breaking against that is seen as some sort of traitor (that or they are painted as too stupid to think for themselves). Perhaps he isn't an idiot that can't think for himself, perhaps he just has different political views? Maybe he's a person who is gay, rather than "a gay", and therefore there are other issues (possibly more important) apart from gay marriage for him? [editline]14th December 2014[/editline] It increasingly seems that people (especially those that supposedly support LGBTQ-whatever other letters it has now) imagine and expect straight people to have different and varied political views, while anyone who isn't straight is expected to fall into a very specific political ideology.

[QUOTE=acds;46709907]And so this guy got one hundred times the hate due to being gay. I like how some people automatically assign a political view to others based on certain things like sexual orientation, and anyone breaking against that is seen as some sort of traitor (that or they are painted as too stupid to think for themselves). Perhaps he isn't an idiot that can't think for himself, perhaps he just has different political views? Maybe he's a person who is gay, rather than "a gay", and therefore there are other issues (possibly more important) apart from gay marriage for him? [editline]14th December 2014[/editline] It increasingly seems that people (especially those that supposedly support LGBTQ-whatever other letters it has now) imagine and expect straight people to have different and varied political views, while anyone who isn't straight is expected to fall into a very specific political ideology.[/QUOTE] This isn't about his personal sexual orientation, but that he's a co-founder of gay rights advocacy who is transferring to the party directly opposing his previous work. Any time a politician does a 180° turn on his/her central issue it deserves some scrutiny. Rather than build up strawmen, read the article. [quote]The 41-year-old politician accused the UMP of fully accepting France’s “submissive” relationship to the European Union. Chenu also added that the UMP and Nicolas Sarkozy, the party’s newly elected president, were “alarmingly” out of touch with LGBT issues.[/quote] [quote]According to GayLib, by tying the knot with the far-right group, Chenu had “betrayed all the political values and objectives that he supposedly defended, in particular the rights of the LGBT community.”[/quote] [quote]In his 2012 book “Why are gays turning to the right” (Pourquoi les gays sont passés à droite, Seuil) French journalist and writer Didier Lestrade suggested gay men in France who feel threatened by hardline Muslim rhetoric are being encouraged by the FN’s anti-Islam rhetoric.[/quote]