No allowances for conscientious or religious objection will be permitted in the France’s planned same-sex marriage legislation, according to French Justice Minister, Christiane Taubira.

Speaking to the mainstream Catholic daily La Croix on Wednesday, Ms Taubira gave the broad outlines of the same-sex marriage bill to be presented by the government by the end of October, Lifesitenews reports.

She acknowledged in the interview that the change would constitute a “societal and legal revolution.”

The socialist Hollande government, elected in May, is wasting no time fulfilling its promise to bring the legislation forward. Most observers expected that the bill would not be introduced before the beginning of 2013, allowing the defenders of traditional marriage some time to organise their response.

Ms Taubira said that the bill will legalise same-sex marriage and adoption by homosexuals which would give them most of the same legal rights and obligations attached to marriage.

One difference is that the legal “presumption of fatherhood” in which the law designates the husband in a marriage as the legal father of any child born to the couple, would not be applied to homosexual partners. In a same-sex marriage, one partner would have to adopt the biological child of the other to obtain parental rights.

Ms Taubira told La Croix that “discussions” have started with proponents and opponents of the bill. But these discussions will not change the government’s stance, Taubira said.

Ms Taubira added: “We are very conscious of all the philosophical and anthropological dimensions attached to marriage. But we consider that they cannot and should not collide with the requirements of equality.”

“It is this requirement, the requirement of equality, which we are meeting with this bill.”

During a press conference in Paris, Cardinal André Vingt-Trois, archbishop of Paris, said he will be meeting with Ms Taubira next week. He hopes that these contacts will induce “changes in the general direction of the bill’s contents.”

The cardinal said it would be important not to allow “a legal debate on the organisation of social life to become a debate on homosexuality.”

“This should not be allowed to be distorted into an ideological debate opposing homophilia against homophobia,” he added.

He hopes several traps will be avoided, including “political instrumentalisation of a debate which is not political in the first place.”

He warned against the “temptation” of “presenting ourselves as if we were defending an essentially Catholic conception of marriage and family,” a sort of “denominational idiosyncrasy,” when the question is one of the “structure of society” and of “a future which is determined through the education of children.”

“Are we capable of making people aware that equality is not sameness and that the respect of the supposed rights of some does not erase the real rights others?” he concluded.