Manif Pour Tous - March 24
They are demonstrating again on March 24 in Paris on the Champs-Elysées. There is much determination and excitement among the readers of Le Salon Beige, especially as the apparent (though not yet definitive) rejection of the citizens' petition is dashing the hopes of so many.
Above, what appears to be a poster (but may be an illustration just for the Internet) quotes François Mitterrand:
"More than a million people in the street and the regime vacillates."
One LSB reader points out that there were more than a million in the street on January 13, but the government did not budge. Other readers warn about the implications of Mitterrand's words that could be taken as a signal for revolution to unseat the present government. Much more on this latest Manif pour Tous in the coming weeks.
Labels: Homosexuality, Manif Pour Tous, March 24, Resistance
posted by tiberge @ 5:33 AM
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Someday I will try to understand the hatred and opposition to gay marriage and adoption. I know of many heterosexual marriages where both partners cheat on one another; where their children are tormented or ignored. I know the French Republic espouses liberte egalite fraternite yet women did not get the vote until 1946! It took them how many years for equality? The sheer hypocrisy of the French defies description. They are screaming against gays because of their concern for the family and tradition. Family? The nation who in 2005 had how many elderly die in the Paris heat wave because heavens forbid their children interrupt their summer vacation.STOP the pure hypocrisy. The French reveal what a multi faced bunch of hypocrites they truly are. The French believe in rights for all those EXCEPT certain groups they deem unqualified. HYPOCRISY THY NAME IS THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.
@ lara77
But you're describing two Frances - the French Republic is the problem. In that you are right. But the Republic does not hate gays. The Republic is giving gays rights over and beyond what others have. The Republic is changing natural order on behalf of gays. It is the Catholics and traditionalists who are opposed to this, not out of hatred, but because they know that if you continue to denature humanity and its fundamental principles you will destroy what little is left in the country of the superior culture it once had.
Your anger is misdirected at the Republic. You are angry at traditional France and traditional religion. You are angry because some people have not renounced the values on which their civilization was founded.
It is the Republic that hates. It is the Republic that brought in the Muslims, that turns a blind eye to crime, that debases education, and now that seeks the end of all traditional institutions, including marriage.
Instead of railing against the Republic, you should congratulate it for giving gays what you obviously think they deserve.
And yet, not so long ago you were very pro-monarchy, were you not? Do you seriously believe the monarchy would condone gay marriage?
Well let us say the Socialists and Communists are pro gay; not the conservatives! There is a disconnect with the French; they open their borders to every group; they proclaim they are the land of liberty! I can remember Danielle Mitterand posing with the Kurds as they were welcomed to France.There were not many protests then; the same with the millions of Arab workers who flooded the nation after 1974. On your website you had a black man form Martinique denouncing gay marriage. Where does a black man in Martinique get to vote on the rights of gay French People in continental France? I have nothing against black people but no matter what the republic says Martinique is NOT France. France is the hexagon; period. Why don't the French protest butchering live animals in the streets of France?? You may be right about it being different if France were a constitutional monarchy. Yet, look across the Channel; Her Britannic Majesty's kingdom, people and Parliament have a much less problem with gay marriage and adoption than the republican "liberals" starting in Calais! You are correct; I loathe the French Republic because she stands for everything that is not French. France was monarchist and Christian; she never had to apologize for her history and heritage. France was created through the efforts of King and faith; those are the facts. How ironic that Great Britain kept her historical traditions and monarchy and never pretended to be something else. The French Republic thinks it is the beacon of freedom rivalling the United States of America. Talk about a legend in its own historical mind!!
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