The French understand marriage?

Earlier I was reading the "Crunch Con" blog at National Review and came across this post by Caleb Stegall:

The French understand marriage, do we? A French government commission has just announced its opposition to same-sex marriages on the most fundamental grounds:

[It] is not possible to think about marriage separately from filiation (the fact of being a child of certain parents): the two questions are closely connected, in that marriage is organized around the child. Marriage is not merely the contractual recognition of the love between a couple; it is a framework that imposes rights and duties, and that is designed to provide for the care and harmonious development of the child.

Allan Carlson observed, “When pro-family groups have said the same thing, we were derided by the elite as backward and religion-obsessed. Now a commission of the French government – a nation revered by the liberal chattering class – endorses our position. No wonder the report has been largely ignored in the mainstream media.”

Interesting. And very right. And certainly no surprise we haven't heard a thing about this.