Anti gay marriage protest paris 2013
Clashes, riot police, at French anti-gay marriage protest
PARIS — Paris riot police fought back crowds who pushed their way onto Paris' landmark Champs-Elysees avenue as part of a huge protest against a draft commandment allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt children.
Hundreds of thousands of people — conservative activists, children, retirees, priests — converged on the capital Sunday in a last-ditch bid to halt the bill, many bused in from the French provinces.
The lower house of France's parliament approved the "marriage for everyone" bill last month with a large majority, and it's facing a vote in the Senate next month. Both houses are dominated by French President Francois Hollande's Socialist Party and its allies.
Sustained protests led by conflict conservatives in this traditionally Catholic state have eroded assist for the draft law in recent months, and organizers hope Sunday's parade will weigh on the Senate debate.
The first few hours of the complain were peaceful. But as it was meant to be winding down, about 100 youths tried to push past police barricades onto the Champs-Elysees, the avenue that cuts through central Paris and draws throngs of tourists daily.
Tens of thousands protest lgbtq+ marriage in Paris
After two years out of the spotlight, anti-gay marriage movement "Manif Pour Tous" (Protest for Everyone) was reactivated on Sunday. According to police figures, between 23,000 and 24,000 people gathered at the Trocadero Plaza in western Paris to protest against France's same-sex marriage laws. Organizers, however, put the turnout at approximately 200,000.
Protesters marched through the streets waving French flags and the movement's blue and pink colors. Some held signs declaring "All together for the family" and "In 2017, I'll vote for the family."
"Even if the gay marriage rule has been adopted, we will continue the disagree to show that it is not good and we want it to be repealed. We wish to influence the political debate that will accept place in the coming months," said one protester.
A 29-year-old man told news agency AFP that he was protesting because he wanted a "return to the principles of Christian civilization in terms of family, institutions and work."
France: Cultural Rift over Lgbtq+ Marriage
'Marriage for all'
France's Socialist government legalized same-sex marriage, which it called "Marriage for All,
French upper house passes gay marriage law
France's Senate upper house has voted in favour of same-sex marriage, paving the way for it to enter regulation after street marches rallied hundreds of thousands of demonstrators both for and against it.
The move is France's most important social reform since the 1981 abolition of the death penalty and was a keynote campaign pledge by president Francois Hollande's decision socialists.
But it is opposed by social conservatives in the majority Catholic state, and by many French Muslims and evangelical Christians.
The bill, approved by a show of hands with minor amendments, returns in May to the National Assembly lower house where the socialists have an absolute majority.
After final acceptance there, it is due to take effect mid-year.
France joins 11 other countries including Belgium, Portugal, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Norway and South Africa where same-sex marriage is legal.
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Источник: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-12/french-upper-house-passes-same-sex-marriage-law/4626566Mass rally against same-sex attracted marriage held in Paris
Hundreds of thousands of people have been demonstrating in Paris against the French government’s plans to legalise marriage and adoption for same-sex couples.
Protesters travelled from all over the country for Sunday’s demonstration, supported by leaders of the centre-right disagreement, the Catholic church and France’s Muslim community.
Police estimated the crowd at 340,000, making it one of the largest demonstrations in Paris since an education demonstration in 1984. Organisers said a million people were attending.
The “Demo for All”, a reference to the government’s billing of its legislation as “marriage for all”, started at three points across Paris, filling boulevards throughout the capital as demonstrators walked to the Eiffel Tower.
President Francois Hollande, who promised to legalise gay marriage and adoption during his election campaign last year, has a comfortable parliamentary majority to move beyond the law by June as planned.
But his poor handling of other promises, such as a 75 percent tax on the wealthy that was dictated unconstitutional or his faltering struggle against rising unemployment, has soured the widespread mood.
‘Defence of c At four o'clock on Tuesday afternoon (21.05.2013), an elderly man called Dominique Venner walked into Notre-Dame Cathedral. He made his way through the crowds of tourists and trusted until he got to the altar. He placed a letter there, drew out a revolver, position the barrel in his mouth and pulled the trigger. The gay marriage debate has been really special in France, to the point of splitting opinion throughout the country. French still taking to the streets in protest Huge numbers of people are still marching in this country in protest at same sex marriage – even though the statute has now been voted by parliament and approved by the Constitutional Council. Britain's Guardian newspaper said these have been "the biggest conservative and rightwing street protests in 30 years." This was misleading. They have been the biggest street protests of any sort for thirty years. They haven't been terribly conservative or right-wing. Not, at least, in the way you might expect. In fact the 'Manif pour tous' – 'Demo for all', so-called in response to French President Francois Hollande's slogan 'Marriage for all', has radically changed wha
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