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A commission reporting to the French National Assembly (Parliament) has returned the most coherent and intellectually formidable negative response to the advocates of "gay marriage" - (in French): http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/12/dossiers/mission_famille_enfants.asp. This is frankly astonishing, in view of the French tendency to PC attitudes and Chirac's hostility to anything that reeks of Christianity, but it shows that unless you pack your commission with journalists, activists and politicians, certain problems arise by themselves.

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I am a historian, and I wrote something on the matter in my own LJ, to which I refer you. http://fpb.livejournal.com/141494.html As for Thorr and Odhinn, I suggest you read what C.S.Lewis, who knew more medieval literature than I do (and I know plenty) had to say about medieval culture in his great masterpiece The Discarded Image: "for one uncertain allusion to the Celtic or Norse gods, you find ten certain ones to Minerva, Diana and Jupiter". And that applies even to Irish and Scandinavian writing.