Those Silly French Folks!

Those goofball French are at it again. But what can you expect from a country that elects a socialist as president (am I hitting a little too close to home)?

French paratrooper Abel Chennouf was shot and killed earlier this year as he conducted a transaction at an ATM machine in France. His girlfriend, Caroline Monet, was pregnant. Even though Abel is dead, he will still marry Caroline. The French laws allow posthumous marriages. 

"It's a really moving ceremony, with an empty chair representing the dead spouse," said Caroline's lawyer. My take on it? There's probably a big government handout for spouses, and therein lies the motive for this charade. If he had wanted to marry her, he would have done it before or as soon as he found out she was pregnant. It's too late now -- death has already parted them. 

Which makes me wonder, how do they word the part of the vow that says, "Till death do us part"? "Even though death did us part"?And since she's marrying a dead man, will she have to divorce the dead man if she wants to marry someone else? And just what is her marital status? Her husband didn't die, so she's not a widow. She married a man who was already dead. 

Caroline's lawyer says he hopes that the ceremony will "let the child have a father." What kind of stupid statement is that? The child was still conceived out of wedlock, and his father is still dead! 

I can see this catching on in the U.S. After all, our socialist president says that we shouldn't forbid men to marry men or women to marry women. He came to this conclusion after listening to the wise counsel of his children. So aren't we being equally discriminatory against the dead if we don't allow them to marry? Who are we to say who they can love and who they can't? We could just license funeral directors to also perform marriages, and before they close the lid for the last time, they can instruct the corpse to kiss the bride. I think the whole world has lost its mind!

"Girlfriend of slain soldier to wed him posthumously." The Dallas Morning News; March 25, 2012; p. 16A.