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Tens of thousands protest in France defending traditional family valuesPublished time: February 02, 2014 18:37
Edited time: February 02, 2014 19:54
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Paris and Lyon Sunday to protest against France’s legalization of gay marriage and defend their interpretation of traditional family values, which brought together conservatives from across France.
Ahead of the protest, some 1,500 police officers were deployed in Paris and 600 in the central city of Lyon, according to Reuters.
The Interior minister, Manuel Valls, warned that any violence towards the police would be dealt with severely.
RT’s Peter Oliver reported from Paris that the protests are the latest in a wave of unrest which has been spreading though France.
“The campaigners say they are marching in defense of traditional family values. They say they are against proposed changes to the law that would make homosexual marriage legal and against alternative ways for homosexual couples to have children either through IVF or adoption,” Oliver said.
The demonstrations have been coordinated by the organization ‘Manif Pour Tous’, which translates as ‘Protest for Everyone’. The organization led efforts to stop the legalization of same sex marriage and adoption by same-sex couples in France last year.
‘Manif Pour Tous’ has already highlighted two issues, which it hopes to defeat in the future, namely the questions of medically assisted procreation (MAP) and in vitro fertilization (IVF) for gay and lesbian couples.
Hollande, who was elected in 2012, is the most unpopular French president in modern times. In the run-up to European elections in the spring the far-right Front National is rising in popularity and is expected to command as much of the vote as Hollande’s socialists.read more:
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