It’s official.

Moments ago the French National Assembly passed the final version of a bill that will allow same-sex couples in France to marry and adopt. Washington Blade:

Tuesday, April 23 promises to be an exciting day for the freedom to marry movement. Two U.S. states and France are scheduled to take key votes on marriage equality bills. Already this year, marriage equality has been realized in several Brazilian states, the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Uruguay and New Zealand.

Last week in France, leaders of the Christian opposition to France’s marriage equality bill promised blood and war if the bill becomes law. Undoubtedly, such rhetoric will stoke anti-gay violence. Curiously, however, CBN News blames the current spate of anti-gay violence in France on immigrants and Muslims:

Marriage equality opponents have ramped up violent rhetoric, and anti-gay physical violence has sharply increased, in the wake of the recent approval of a marriage equality bill by the French Parliament.

France and eight other countries, including the United States, are escalating an intervention in the African country of Mali. The offensive, according to French authorities, is being mounted to target Islamic extremists or al Qaeda-linked rebels who have “grabbed more territory in Mali, inching closer to the capital.”

Ultimately the Right’s love of ruining things for others is too unifying to allow other things to get in the way.

Hollande was apparently not amused with this monopolistic high-handedness, and so today the French tax authorities filed a $1.3 billion dollar claim against Google to pressure them into a settlement, per France’s weekly Canard Enchaine.

While Mitt Romney hid behind Barack Obama and displayed about as much independent thought as a college student who didn’t cram enough the night before the test and spent the whole time looking at his neighbor’s paper, his neighbor Barack Obama reflected so strongly the smoldering wreck that is this nation’s foreign policy consensus.

Well, look who may be putting an end to Germany’s austerity fantasies.