Tag Archives: France

Right-Wing French MP: Gay Marriage Will Become Law & Then We’ll Go To Court

“However large the demonstration was, it will have no impact at all. Christine Boutin must believe in Santa Claus.  We in the Senate are generally more staid than the Assembly. We won’t engage in any filibustering. We go about it calmly. The debate will much more sedate than in the National Assembly.  In the end, things should balance out between …

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Paris Haters: We Totally Had 1.4 Million

The organizers of yesterday’s hate march in Paris are blanketing social media today with attendance claims almost five times that of the official estimate issued by the government. NOM has already trumpeted the 1.4M figure in press releases and on their blog. The second clip below, however, uses to aerial photographs that seem to prove otherwise. Expect Brian Brown to …

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Paris Hate Marchers Scream Victimhood

At yesterday’s hate march in Paris, 98 demonstrators were arrested after a riot police were forced to use tear gas and batons to keep them off the banned Champs-Elysees.  Some protesters were photographed hoisting toddlers onto their shoulders for use as human shields. Today organizers of the march are calling for the resignations of government officials. Via The Local: Christine …

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On Met Les Enfants Devant

Via John Aravosis, here’s the caption for the above photo: “On met les enfants devant, on met les enfants devant.” TRANSLATION: “Put the kids in front, put the kids in front,” a father yells to other protesters, as he approached the police line with his three year old child perilously perched on his shoulders right after the police used tear …

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FRANCE: Paris Hate March Turns Violent, Riot Police Use Tear Gas On Protesters

The Local reports that today’s hate march in Paris turned violent when a group of protesters attempted to march down the off-limits Champs Elysees, prompting riot police to respond with tear gas. 100 to 200 frustrated protestors had reportedly attempted to breach a police barricade blocking them from entering the Champs Elysees. In response, riot police forcibly pushed them back …

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Huge Crowd For Paris Hate March

It appears that a massive crowd showed up for today’s hate march in Paris.  Live streaming video of the ranting is here.

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Paris Haters Announce New March Route

After losing their court battle to march down the Champs-Élysées, the anti-gay Demo For All group has posted the above revised demonstration route which tomorrow will converge from three directions at Les Sablons and finish at a stage at the Arc de Triomphe.  Here’s Demo For All’s Frigide Barjot and her accomplices announcing the changes. (Via JMG reader David)

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French Haters Announce New March Route

From Paris, JMG reader David sends us the above bus ad from France’s anti-gay marriage group and notes the bad rhyme of their latest slogan, which translates as: “François, don’t mess with marriage. Take care of unemployment.”  Yesterday Manif Pour Tous lost their court battle to march down the Champs-Élysée. Today they issued a murky advisory on the new march …

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FRANCE: Anti-Marriage Hate Marchers Lose Permit Battle In Paris Court

The group wanted to march down the Champs-Élysées next week just a couple of days before the US Supreme Court hears its cases. The cops said “Non!” and a Paris court agrees. Translation of the above by JMG reader David: “Paris administrative tribunal has rejected the #Manifpourtous request to cancel the police prefecture’s ban.” Judicial tyranny! (#Manifpourtous means “demo for …

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Press Release Of The Day

JMG reader David sends us his translation of the latest press release from the organizers of France’s anti-gay marriage movement. The “Manif Pour Tous” has duly noted the Paris Police Prefecture’s order, dated March 18, 2013 prohibiting our march on the Champs-Élysées planned for this March 24th. The order also prohibits demonstrators from entering Place de la Concorde, Place de …

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Paris Nixes Anti-Gay March

Citing security concerns, the Paris police department has denied the permit of anti-gay groups who planned to march down the Champs-Elysées in a massive rally against same-sex marriage.  A previous such march in Paris drew an estimated 300,000 protesters earlier this year. In a statement published on Thursday, the Paris police said that they had notified protest organisers in the …

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FRANCE: Researchers Claim Early HIV Drugs Functionally Cures One In Ten

Researchers at France’s Institute Pasteur claim that early HIV drug treatment may functionally cure about 10% of the newly infected. Their report follows similar news out of the United States, where an toddler remains HIV-free after robust early treatment as an infant. The French study only involves a small number of patients. Dr Asier Saez-Cirion, from the Institute Pasteur in …

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Another Anti-Gay March For UK & France

Two days before the U.S. Supreme Court hears its marriage cases, anti-gay activists in Britain and France will stage “massive rallies.”  One of the previous rallies in France had an estimated 300,000 attendees.  Via Gay Star News: French and UK Christians are planning a ‘large protest’ against same-sex marriage in London.  Campaign group La Manif pour Tous, who is heading …

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TRAILER: Naked War

From a coming documentary about France’s topless FEMEN.

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Christians Send Paris Mayor Pennies To Cover Damage From Anti-Gay March

Last month openly gay Paris Mayor Betrand Delanoe a levied a €100,000 repair fine against the organizers of a massive anti-gay marriage rally in order to cover damage done to the landscaping at a city park.  In response, attendees are sending Delanoe an avalanche of tiny checks because it will cost Paris more than the amount of each payment to …

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FRANCE: Far-Right Politician Accused Of Assaulting Three Gay Activists

French police are investigating after a leader of the far-right National Front party was accused of pushing three activists down a flight of stairs during a same-sex marriage rally in Burgundy. The Local reports: Councillor Richard Jacob, an elected member of Marine Le-Pen’s far-right party, allegedly shouted homophobic abuse at three gay-rights activists before pushing them down the steps of …

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LIVE VIDEO: French National Assembly Makes Final Vote On Marriage [UPDATE: The Bill Has PASSED By 329-229 Vote!]

Watch it live right now.  More history in the making. UPDATE: The bill has PASSED by a vote of 329-229! And it INCLUDES gay adoption! President Francois Hollande’s Socialists have pushed the measure through the National Assembly and put France on track to join about a dozen, mostly European nations that grant marriage and adoption rights to homosexuals. The measure, …

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Horse Meat, Donkey Meat

Some of the horse meat that’s been labeled as beef in European supermarkets may not even be horse meat. A law banning horses from Romanian roads may be responsible for the surge in the fraudulent sale of horse meat on the European beef market, a French politician said today.  Horse-drawn carts were a common form of transport for centuries in …

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FRANCE: National Assembly Approves Article One Of Marriage Equality Bill

This morning the French National Assembly approved Article One of it marriage equality bill by a vote of 249-97! BBC News reports: The French National Assembly has approved the most important article of a bill to legalise same-sex marriage. Deputies voted 249-97 in favour of redefining marriage as being an agreement between two people – not just between a man …

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FRANCE: Anti-Gay Activists Hang Marriage Banners From 170 Paris Bridges

Before the beginning of today’s marriage equality debate in the French National Assembly, this happened: “A mom and a dad, it’s elementary”, “No to fictional filiation”, “Having a child is not a right”, said the banners. “This is freedom of expression,” explained Frigide Barjot from anti-gay wedding collective Manif Pour Tous. “We demand freedom for MPs to vote their conscience. …

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