By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
France's highest court Tuesday rejected as unlawful the first marriage by a gay couple in France and annulled the men's union.
Stephane Charpin and Bertrand Charpentier were married in a civil ceremony on June 5, 2004, in Begles, a town in the southwest Bordeaux region. The government immediately said the union was outside the law, and a series of court decisions unfavorable to the couple has followed.
In the latest decision, the court ruled Tuesday that "under French law, marriage is a union between a man and a woman," backing a 2005 decision by an appeals court in Bordeaux.
No other gay couple has married in France since Charpin and Charpentier's 2004 union.
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