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Frances Surprising Resistance to Gay Marriage
January 15, 2013
Robert Royal
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Relations between Church and State in France, however, have remained testy ever since, including this weekends confrontation over the effort of François Hollandes French Socialists, who control all the important levers of political power at the moment, to impose so-called gay marriage on the nationand while theyre at it, gay adoption, and government-funded artificial insemination for lesbian couples. That was too much for many.
In classic French fashion, a huge number of people went into the streetsdescendre dans la rue being almost a formal political process in France. Numbers are always contested, but about 800,000 and perhaps as many as one million peoplefive times Napoleons figuremarched three different parade routes to the Eiffel Tower Sunday.
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France’s Surprising Resistance to Gay Marriage | First Things