Thousands Protest French Plans To Legalize Gay Marriage
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- On Top Magazine Staff
- | January 13, 2013
Hundreds of thousands of people are gathering in Paris on Sunday to oppose the French government's plans to legalize gay marriage.
The Socialist government of Francois Hollande in November sent a proposed plan to legalize marriage and adoption for gay couples to lawmakers for debate. The National Assembly is expected to start examining the legislation later this month, and a vote could come by mid-2013.
Starting from three different points in the city, the demonstrators will converge at the Eiffel Tower in what is expected to be largest demonstration in the city in a decade.
Police are expecting about 300,000 to take part in the “Demo for All,” a take-off on the government's plans to introduce “marriage for all.”
The protest's leader, comedian Frigide Barjot, told France24 that opposing such unions is not anti-gay but pro-family.
“We're all born of a man and a woman, but the law will say the opposite tomorrow,” Barjot is quoted by Reuters as telling reporters. “It will say a child is born of a man and a man.”