French protesters converge in Paris to march against gay marriage
Strongly backed by the Catholic hierarchy, lay activists have mobilized a hybrid coalition of church-going families, political conservatives, Muslims, evangelicals and even homosexuals opposed to gay marriage for the show of force.
“We want this draft law to be withdrawn,” Patricia Soullier, a protest organizer, told BFM-TV before boarding a Paris-bound train in Montpellier in the south of France.
Several hundred thousand were expected to march in near freezing temperatures against the reform, which Hollande promised in his election campaign and has enough votes in parliament to pass easily…
Organizers insist they are not against gays and lesbians, but for traditional marriage. “We are marriagophile, not homophobe,” said Barjot, author of a book entitled “Confessions of a Trendy Catholic”.
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A coalition of strange bedfellows.
melle1228 on January 13, 2013 at 2:35 PM
Wait, they don’t already have gay marriage in France? I thought they were one of those European countries that is soooo much more socially advanced than the Neanderthals in this country.
Odysseus on January 13, 2013 at 2:37 PM
It is all the South of France now.
Grunt on January 13, 2013 at 2:39 PM
If all these procreating heterosexuals stopped having and raising gay children, this whole issue wouldn’t be here.
JetBoy on January 13, 2013 at 2:42 PM
Mainstreaming gross immorality and perversion is the only way to secure a prosperous and peaceful future for France.
tom daschle concerned on January 13, 2013 at 2:44 PM
If we could identify the gay gene, then that might see some conservatives behind selective abortions. Of course, that will never happen since homosexuality is a choice – one that people are free to make but must realize comes, like all choices, with consequences.
Odysseus on January 13, 2013 at 2:49 PM
Amazing that in France, of all places, they’re actually making a stand against the gayfia and what it will bring.
MelonCollie on January 13, 2013 at 2:49 PM
Ahh but don’t forget that France is indeed a Latin Catholic country. Culturally it is rather traditionalist and conservative.
theblackcommenter on January 13, 2013 at 2:55 PM
Actually if government got out of the marriage business it wouldn’t matter at all. Go marry whoever or whatever you want, as long as you’re not getting treated differently by our government due to it.
ButterflyDragon on January 13, 2013 at 2:57 PM
Actually I have a lot of respect for the homosexuals marching with this group. That is one of the biggest problems I have with the gay movment. In their effort to be “treated” like everyone else, they have ignored reality by refusing to admit the best possible combo of parents for a child is a functional mom & dad.
And all those gays “who were haved” and raised by heterosexuals all had a mom & a dad, and I think it is very selfish when someone chooses to deny the same to a child.
melle1228 on January 13, 2013 at 2:58 PM
I used to think you were allergic to straw.
CW on January 13, 2013 at 3:17 PM
Well-said!
Stoic Patriot on January 13, 2013 at 3:50 PM
Just a little Sunday afternoon watching football snark is all I meant.
JetBoy on January 13, 2013 at 4:09 PM
The best quick articulation of the “anti-gay-marriage” side I’ve ever read made by a French gay man.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/337393/extraordinary-french-rebellion-against-gay-marriage-maggie-gallagher#
gwelf on January 13, 2013 at 4:16 PM
You make a very valid point…Don’t judge the whole group as one and all the same. Unfortunately, the big, loud, and vocal gay organizations mostly lean Left/liberal, and get all the face time in the news/blogosphere. We aren’t all puppets of the far-Left.
But this:
That is utter nonsense. The best possible family unit for children are loving parent(s). The only criteria you’re basing that “best possible parents” statement is that it’s a “mom and dad” of opposite sex…and not considering a whole long list of actual home life for a child.
JetBoy on January 13, 2013 at 4:22 PM
Actually no I didn’t miss the rest of the indicators of a good home, hence my usage of “functional” mom & dad. And yes, opposite sex couples offer the best possible home for a child. A man and a women bring different complimentary things to raising a child. If two people of the same sex were just as well, then a grandmother and mom raising a child would be equivalent to a dad & a mom raising a child, but they aren’t and many studies have proven that. There is no political agenda to push mom/grandmother parental units so studies actually show the truth.
And yes, I am aware that not all homosexuals are leftist. You and I have more in common politically then we don’t. I just believe that society is better off with children being raised by a mom & a dad. The gay movement is only the last in a long line to try to ruin that i.e, the welfare state, no-fault divorce.
I have no doubt that same-sex couples have and do raise competent adults, but so do single moms, but neither is the ideal. And I think if the state is going to reward and push a certain relationship; that relationship should be society’s ideal.
melle1228 on January 13, 2013 at 4:34 PM
True, Gay Marriage has been a disaster everywhere it has been implemented in Europe.
Glad to see so many fellow Europeans taking a stand against this travesty.
Norwegian on January 13, 2013 at 4:57 PM
It really isn’t about government benefits, etc. That could easily be achieved with civil unions. But whenever that idea is floated, the pro-gay marriage crowd poo-poos it as still being discriminatory.
Why?
This is about silencing opposition.
You heard what happened at the Vatican, right? Pro-gay rights protestors took their tops off in front of the Pope and had brilliant statements like “Shut up” and “In gay we trust” written on their naked bodies.
There is, or at least was, a petition on the WH website to label the Catholic Church a “hate group” for its stance on gay marriage/homosexuality.
The gay rights crowd loves to say this won’t impugn on my marriage or my freedom of religion. But their actions speak volumes to the contrary.
It’s not about equality under the law. It’s about state-sanctioned persecution of those who engage in ungoodthink.
englishqueen01 on January 13, 2013 at 5:15 PM