France legalizes same-sex marriage and adoption

[Benj]

Who switched? The previous vote was 329-229. Or was it just different legislators showing up?

[Benj]

How are erroneous votes that common in the French legislature? Seems like it should be an easy problem to fix, and a serious problem.

[Benj]

Has Hollande signed it yet?

France doesn't do Presidential signatures, does it?

How are erroneous votes that common in the French legislature? Seems like it should be an easy problem to fix, and a serious problem.

They vote with a small machine in front of their seat. People are just pressing the wrong button. It's not stand-up voting like US/Canada or lobby voting like UK.

So... add a button to retract/change a vote if you press the wrong button? I mean, it doesn't matter when majorities are large, but imagine if the majority were small.

[Benj]

What does this mean for all French overseas territories?

Legal everywhere that is integral to France (French Guiana, Guadelope, Martinique, Reunion, Mayotte). They're as much a part of France as Paris. Not sure on areas with more autonomy like New Caledonia, but I suspect it does not apply.

[Benj]

The opposition to the marriage bill was probably the campest and 'gayest' protest I have ever seen. I've seen striaghter gay rights parades. I full expect it to be announced as one elaborate joke for a tv special.

Only in France would this be an anti-gay protest:

[Benj]

That's like posting a picture of men dressed in drag on a stag-do to prove Britain's camp; they've clearly dressed up for the occasion, whether to be hilariously ironic or desperately use their pink attire to try and deflect from engaging in an openly homophobic protest.  

Sort of. My understanding is that the anti-gay-marriage movement adopted pink as their color formally, so even the more "normal" protesters were often wearing pink shirts or scarves or sashes and so forth. I don't think it was necessarily intended as ironic here.