PARIS — Several hundred thousand people converged at the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Sunday to protest the French president’s plan to legalize same-sex marriage and allow same-sex couples to adopt and conceive children.
The protest march started at three points across Paris, filling streets throughout the city as demonstrators walked more than 3 miles to the grounds of the Eiffel Tower. Paris police estimated the crowd at 340,000, making it one of the largest demonstrations in Paris since an education protest in 1984.
Many of the protesters came after long train and bus rides from the French provinces.
President Francois Hollande has pledged to push through a marriage equality law with his Socialists’ parliamentary majority, but public opposition — spearheaded by religious leaders — has dampened popularity of Hollande’s plan in recent months.
About 52 percent of French favor legalizing same-sex marriage, according to a survey released Sunday, down from as high as 65 percent in August.
The opposition to Hollande’s plan has underscored divisions among the secular-but-Catholic French, especially in more traditional rural areas, versus urban enclaves. And while polls reflect the majority of French citizens still support marriage equality, support is not as widespread for adoption and artificial insemination.
“The French are tolerant, but they are deeply attached to the family and the defense of children,” said Daniel Liechti, vice-president of the National Council of French Evangelicals, which urged its members to join the march.
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Fuck youuu ! Freedom for everyone !
How about being pro the positive welfare of children..period…it should not matter if parents are same or opposite sex as long as the child is loved and cared for…
Alternate title: Hundreds of thousands in Paris can fuck off.
I am going to the pro gay marriage and gay adoption in 2 weeks :-D
i am sure most of them fail at what they do and only want attention
people think they are better its fucking stupid EVERYONE has the right to love who they want to I love with no race and no gender its better that way
… A lot of H8′ERS, thanks to thee-NAZI-Pope!!!
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Very sad what we have come to
Sad how people are intolerant and selfish !
340,000 people came to protest against marriage equality? That’s actually quite horrifying. Shame on all of them. Bunch of heartless, delusional idiots.
Boo!!!
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:-( Marriage Equality for All….!
Funny how famous french designers that put that shithole in the map are gay. What to expect of such bunch of rude people? Maybe all gay people should vacation some place else? Just an idea
My partner and i want to visit in july..hmmmm
*cancels trip to Paris*
I didn’t realize people in France could be so selfish. They must have shipped people in from Louisiana and Alabama…
That so called protest attendance was a drop in the bucket compare to those that support marriage equality and gay adoption in France. The president of France promised to legalize gay marriage and gay adoption, I believe he will succeed. Who cares what some has been socialite thinks. LOL. Miss thing needs to go home, take a sedative and have a cocktail.
Screw the French, nobody likes them anyway .
If you’re against gay marriage, don’t marry a gay. Let the others decide who they want to marry. Yes to equality!
This makes me very sad.
Damn fuck you too, Paris!
People in hell want ice water………..
There are double that many marching for marriage equality in France. The French love to protest, half the time it isn’t even for something they support. Don’t worry it will pass.
I am French and extremely shocked by this movement against marriage for everyone! Myself I’m not proud to be French when I see that, but don’t believe that all French are against marriage for everyone, is fighting a great deal that everyone can access it. 340,000 people it is little, it is nothing compared to those for marriage for everyone!
did you see what Good As You Jeremy Hooper found out who is behind this gay bashery in France http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_you/2013/01/noms-coltonbrugger-behind-a-french-let-the-people-vote-site.html
people marching to oppress the rights of others, disgusting. Hitler would be proud.
L’egalite du mariage!!!
Let someone declare war against France and watch them run to the first homosexual married couple they can find for protection!
I agree Brian Hitler would be proud. To bad gay Americans helped save these bigots from Hitler. I do need to see the percentage of the french oppose marriage equality. I am hoping it is low.
Have they never heard of Gay Paree?
here we go again
It will never change, whatever happens with marriage and civil right rquality for gays. There will always be dissenters and naysayers. Ignore them.
Were they all married?
It’s just a ploy by the Catholic Church. Most Parisien’s are very tolerant and open minded. It’s a propaganda stunt by the church who are losing influence in an increasingly secular country. It will pass especially with the new Socialist government in power. Keine angst folks
Boo on France! They will probably be the last European nation to legalize gay marriage making them a laughing stock
France already has legalized civil unions. Marriage equality will pass. This new govt has said it will pass it regardless. The Catholic and Muslim religion are behind these protests.
Are gays taking your rights away? Are they the ones belittling you and calling you disgusting? Do you see them walking out and protesting against you wanting to have something you already don’t have? No so quit trying to steal their rights away.
protesting equality .. who’s wrong here? scary and crazy.
Too many lonely, bored, stupid, frustrated, ridiculous, fools in France today.
Asshole
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Eh Fuck the French
Wow, France. Home to the greatest painters, chefs, anti-semites and homophobes?
@ David Angle thank you
Small mindedness and bigotry knows no frontiers. Thankfully these folk are against history and they will be forgotten!
WTF happened to GAY paree?
Cause France has always been right about equal rights before…oh wait…
Good luck with that! Ha!
They’ve got assholes in France, too? I thought they were so liberated….
I really hope the government ignores them and passes marriage equality
It’s plain common sense that when you have a bunch of girly men abusing, polluting and corrupting themselves with each other in sexually perverted ways, compounding and exacerbating their wickedness with their ritualistic consumption of a wide variety of mind altering drugs, that they inevitably ALTER their own brain chemistry by their sinful behavior! Their brain chemistry changes as they continue in SIN. Their neural pathways mutate resulting in a reverse polarization of those pathways and then they no longer desire God’s gift to them…a.k.a WOMEN! They become spiritually blind to their own state of perversity, morally corrupted in their inner most being.
Instead of a using the plumbing that God gave them for its NATURAL and OBVIOUS end-use application (to produce a NATURAL FAMILY) they employ the use of their God given plumbing for EVIL and WICKED end-use purposes! They corrupt not only their minds but their bodies as well!
@Lewis Foley: Everything you said is the exact reason people with your mentality are losing and will continue to lose. The fact you walk around with a gun, misguided interpretation of scripture, pseudo-science, and insecurity and fear about your own masculinity has brought nothing but pain and suffering to countless generations. Your last shrieks on the retreat are annoying and only serve to remind civilized society how important it is to toss you on the trash-heap of history. You discourage no one. You energize the need to ensure the damage people like you have committed against humanity is undone forever. Your hubris to assume God is on your side borders on psychosis. All the power people like ever possessed was in your dick and your gun. And now even those can’t help you.
These people suck…!
Unfortanaly, I live in this country and I do my possible for the texts will be voted and giving all rights to LGBT.
Hard days for gay couple and gay famillies in France these days.. We need your support to win this battle and make a pass in the way to egality !
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