The ECHR Unanimously Confirms the Non-Existence of a Right to Gay Marriage
by Grégor Puppinck, European Centre for Law and Justice:
On June 9, 2016, the European Court of Human Rights delivered its decision on the case of Chapin and Charpentier v. France (n°40183/07). It questioned the French courts’ decision to annul the “marriage of Bègles” contracted in 2004 between two men, in violation of French law.
By this decision, the European Court of Human Rights unanimously recalled that the European Convention on Human Rights does not include the right to marriage for homosexual couples, neither under the right to respect for private and family life (art. 8) nor the right to marry and to found a family (art. 12).
More precisely, this new decision confirms a series of judgements and particularly recalls that:
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