70,000 MARCH AGAINST GAY MARRIAGE IN PARIS
Tens of thousands of people opposed to legalising same sex-marriage and gay adoption in France have marched through the streets of Paris.
In July, French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault promised to legalise same-sex marriage and gay adoption in the country within a year.
“In the first half of 2013, the right to marriage and adoption will be open to all couples, without discrimination,” Ayrault told parliament.
The plans, however, appear to have divided the country.
On Saturday, conservative and religious groups, backed largely by the French Catholic Church, took part in the more than 70,000 strong “March for Everyone”.
Protestors opposed to the pro-gay legislation, many wearing blue, white and pink, held up signs proclaiming: ”one father one mother for all children.”
Around 22,000 also protested in the city of Lyon, and another 8,000 marched in the city Marseille.
As the protests were taking place in France, in the Vatican, Pope Benedict expressed his support for the protestors’ efforts and said that “the Church’s voice must make itself heard relentlessly and with determination”.
While polls show that the majority of French people support gay marriage, the right for gays and lesbians to adopt is less widely backed.
I don’t blame the French for marching against legalizing homosexual marriages, look what it has done to South Africa, we are cursed in this country for legalizing gay marriages.
Rev… I thought the reason why this country was cursed was because of corruption and over-use of witchcraft not to mention the abuse of power among people in nearly every sphere of life including (I daresay) the church! I never hear any of u preachers talking about that stuff yet it affects everything we do. In any event The French have no right to be throw stones in thier glass houses, their mentality about sex and relations is Legend and it’s what got dubbed Paris as the city of romance in the first place. I would have thought people who are known for thier ‘sexual liberal’ ways wud be a lot more open minded. Rev what disturbs me about most of u homophobe ‘men and women of God’ is When I hear u express your dislike for the LBGTI it’s never in a peaceful manner that truely represents the core principle of God’s UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. Do u even realise how judgemental ur statement was or do u even care?
“265 TRANS PEOPLE MURDERED IN LAST YEAR”, “GAUTENG MURDERS: 3 ARRESTS. POLICE WARN GAY MEN NATIONALLY”, “GAY MAN STABBED, POSSIBLY RAPED, IN WESTONARIA”, “CATHOLIC CHURCH WASTED $2 MILLION IN FIGHT AGAINST GAY MARRIAGE”, “HOME AFFAIRS MAKES TRANS PEOPLE’S LIVES ‘A MISERY’ “. These Mamba headlines Rev. As a man of God, what they truely mean to u? When God’s children are being killed and discrininated against doesn’t your mandate as a so called man of God obligate you to speak out against such unChristian and devil inspired violence… Oh rite… those people brought this on themselves cause of thier gay, so sorry!! Totally forgot. If memory serves me correctly we Christians were being persecuted in similar fashion some 2000 years ago. The only differance being Christianity was, is and always will a be choice. There is no choice about being gay, None!! That money the Catholic Church spent on Anti-gay campaigns shows how wayward and so far from God those “who are suppose to lead us to heaven” have become. It would appear they are leading people in the opposite direction