GAY MARRIAGE COSTS HIM CITIZENSHIP // FRANCE

Frederic Minvielle has been a happy resident of the Netherlands for the past six years, he even got married to a Dutch back in 2003.

Early this year this love story took an unexpected twist. French authorities informed Minvielle that his expatriate idyll had cost him his French citizenship. The main reason, according to Minvielle and his supporters: because his spouse was another man.

The Netherlands recognizes official gay unions, but France does not. The trouble began when Minvielle adopted his Dutch husband's citizenship in 2006 — a right extended to foreign spouses of officially wed couples in the Netherlands, whether gay or heterosexual.

France has applied the bilateral accord the way it would to any single French national adopting Dutch nationality: by revoking French citizenship. Time

His case is about to be "re-examined" Liberation

Comments

[Sandro]

This sort of thing would be roughly why the Dutch people look down on France with mild disdain.
French society today is a basket case, minorities of all sorts are continuously ignored or treated with contempt (be they gays or Muslims or something else). Now, that's not a French phenomenon in itself and every society is allowed to have its problems. AS LONG AS it admits that it has problems and tries to fix them. Yet the ruling French political class go around as if their nation is somehow superior to others. Their behavior is laughable and ridiculous and fills Northern Europeans with contempt.

Long live the Netherlands / Leve Nederland!

[Ridgmonthome]

Isn't it about time that the European Parliament and the Commission sorted this situation out, they are conning us into believing that with the signing of the Single European Act we are one... when we obviously are not.

[Tim]

I'm french, and I am proud of being french, but these past years I feel like I'm not, and I think that it would be better to feel like European, all the European countries with the same language , the same government, and why not , the same president, why people should be scared of what they are, is it normal, I don't want to be ashamed or to hide what i want for fear of being vired from my own country.
that sucks so bad

[Erick]

This has nothing to do with gay marriage. If there is no double citizenship agreement between to countries, the second you take another citizenship you loose the one you had. Its that simple. Its foolish of him not to know that.