Police estimate about 120,000 people took to Paris' streets today to protest marriage equality there. Organizers, mostly Catholics or Muslims who believe in "traditional marriage" and secular activists who oppose same-sex couples raising children, claim about 500,000 people turned out.
Either way, it was a massive rally, just the latest indication that the Socialist government led by President François Hollande faces stiff, sustained opposition to their plan to expand marriage laws to include same-sex couples.
The BBC has a report from the action:
Tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Paris over plans to give gay couples in France the right to marry and adopt children.That last paragraph: "The organizers are keen to stress their movement is non-political and non-religious, and in no way directed against homosexuals."
Three big marches were converging on the Champs de Mars, next to the Eiffel Tower.
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The "Demo for all" event was being led by a charismatic comedian known as Frigide Barjot, who tweeted that the "crowd is immense" and told French TV that gay marriage "makes no sense" because a child should be born to a man and woman.
Centre-right UMP President Jean-Francois Cope said the rally would be a "test" for the president because there were "clearly millions of French people who are probably concerned by this reform".
The far-right National Front is also opposed to the change, although its leader Marine Le Pen stayed away from the march, arguing the issue was a diversion by politicians from France's real problems.
Despite the support of the Church and political right, the organizers are keen to stress their movement is non-political and non-religious, and in no way directed against homosexuals, BBC Paris correspondent Hugh Schofield reports.
Exactly who helped promote and fund this organized protest...the Catholic church (there were even leadership level Bishops with the protestors) and yes, even NOM helped support this event and are posting self loathing French fags on Youtube who agree that homosexuals shouldn't be allowed to get married.
My question is, if this isn't aimed at homosexuals, just whom are they targeting?
Just a bunch of bigoted morons who are desperately clinging to some false sense of superiority by denying the most basic rights to a minority.
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Dear Ulf,
one might easily say that those who demonstrated against equal rights are bigotted morons - which of course is true.
BUT - this demo is only one piece of a far bigger mosaic.
For 2000 years the Catholic church spread the germs of a deadly antisemitism. Nazi Germany in some way fulfilled catholic dreams of a world without jews by murdering millions.
During the second half of the 19.th century Jews in Europe got equal civil rights and became more and more visible. Fascist and clerical antisemites brought up the idea of a world-wide jewish conspiracy with the aim of destroying western civilization. A terrible and at the same time ridiculous lie - but people believed in what their leaders told them, especially in Germany.
It seems now that gays get more and more civil rights and become more and more visible, the fascist-catholic church tries to use them as scapegoats. The same political mechanism as antisemitism in the past century.
Religions cannot exist without outward enemies. Once the Catholic church spread hate against the jews - it would be hard to try this again as long as there are still suvivors of the holocaust.
So the Catholic chruch now turns their hat against gays.
The Catholic Church under Ratzinger is as dangerous as muslim fundamentalists - antidemocratic and anti-human rights. And that is not funny - we must be alert that there will be a rollback as far as gay rights are concerned.
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