Protest against gay marriage: Huge crowds expected in Paris
By Tom Heneghan, Reuters
PARIS – Several hundred thousand people are expected to march through Paris on Sunday against the planned legalization of same-sex marriage in the first mass protest against the unpopular President Francois Hollande.
Virginie Merle, an eccentric comedian known as Frigide Barjot, who is leading the so-called “Demo for All,” insists the protest is pro-marriage rather than anti-gay and has banned all but its approved banners saying a child needs a father and a mother to develop properly.
“We’re all born of a man and a woman, but the law will say the opposite tomorrow,” she said last week. “It will say a child is born of a man and a man.”
Some things you just can’t make up.
Yup, good post. It’sa shifting alright.
The issue of marriage equality is about to reach critical mass, in the US and many other nations. The protests are the loudest as people react to he shift in our collective consciousness; it is the dying gasp of the old reality making way for the future. I love your cartoon caption!
“The protests are the loudest as people react to he shift in our collective consciousness; it is the dying gasp of the old reality making way for the future.”
There will always be some contingent hangers-on, but I agree. I think we are at a turning point where this chapter in our social fabric has progressed.