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French march against gay marriage
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/1118/breaking2.html
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Groups opposing president Francois Hollande’s plan to legalise gay marriage and adoption took to the streets across France yesterday.
Mr Hollande said he would enact his “marriage for everyone” plan within a year of coming to power in May, but vocal opposition from religious leaders, some politicians and parts of rural France has divided the country.
Yesterday’s protest, called the March for Everyone, included pro-family and Catholic groups. Several thousand people marched in Paris, carrying signs with slogans such as “One child (equals) one father + one mother.”
Their final destination was the Invalides monument, the final resting place of Napeolon Bonaparte, the French leader who invented the country’s prized civil code, which is still in force today.
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