France and the Vatican: Opposing same-sex marriage

My paper will explore the ways in which Vatican theological anthropology, beneath the surface in the PACS debates of the last millennium, became central and explicit in the opposition to the recent French same-sex marriage vote and will situate the development of this theological anthropology of complementarity in both the long intellectual history of sex and gender and the transnational Vatican political and theological project of opposition to what it terms the "gender agenda."   It will end with a comparative analysis of the role of Catholic public intellectuals in the U.S. and French debates on same-sex marriage.