L'homoparentalité et la fonction du droit

This article analyses the parliamentary debate that recently took place in Belgium and led to the passing of a proposed law enabling homosexual couples to adopt children. It shows that the richness and diversity of the arguments put forward both by the partisans and the opponents of the proposed law exceed the framework of a liberal conception of law and bring into play axiological convictions. Far from interpreting this phenomenon as the sign of a still insufficient liberalisation of the public sphere, the authors see in it the indication that the function of law in pluralist societies cannot be reduced to the mere preservation of subjective rights, but consists equally in the collective affirmation of the values enlightening human existence. However, this makes it necessary to place in perspective the dominant position of the legislator vis-A-vis the social sphere (transl. by J. Dudley)

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