Tag Archives: France

WATCH LIVE: French National Assembly Debates Marriage Equality Bill

Watch it live now. Things are quite lively.

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VIDEO: French Pro-Marriage March

Al Jazeera reports on Sunday’s rally. The French national legislature is due to begin hearing the bill today.

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NOM’s Pants Continue To Blaze

NOM has been up-fudging the numbers of that Paris march for weeks. Today they added 700,000 to their January 13th claim, presumably in response to yesterday’s pro-gay march.

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FRANCE: Straight MPs “Kiss For Solidarity”

Via Gay Star News: Two straight French members of parliament decided to show their solidarity with gay rights advocates in their own way – they kissed. Socialist MPs Yann Galut and Nicolas Bays joined the ‘Marriage for All’ protests on Sunday (27 January), where a reported quarter of a million people marched across the country. Galut said: ‘We’re both straight, …

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FRANCE: 125,000 March In Paris To Support Same-Sex Marriage

There was a great turnout today for the same-sex marriage march in Paris. Demonstrators waved banners emblazoned with phrases like “Equality of rights is not a threat” and chanted: “What do you want? Equality! When do you want it? Now!” Another placard showed a version of the French government’s seal, but with two Mariannes kissing, and under the words, “Liberty, …

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Headline Of The Day

Last week NOM was all over the hate web trumpeting an unsourced poll which claimed that French support for same-sex marriage had “plummeted.” Not according to a poll released today.

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Brian Brown Reports From France

(Via Good As You)

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FRANCE: Gay Paris Mayor Fines Anti-Gay Marriage Group For Repairs

Openly gay Paris Mayor Betrand Delanoe has a levied a €100,000 repair fine against the organizers of Sunday’s massive anti-gay marriage rally.  Gay Star News reports: The money is to cover damages by the protestors to the grass on the Champs-de-Mars where they congregated at the end of their “March For All.” But it has been criticized, with some accusing …

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Brian Brown Writes From France

“I write to you from France, where a pro-marriage rebellion is underway! Francois Hollande, the ultra liberal President of France, swept into power last May, promising among many other things a swift legalizing of same-sex marriage and adoption. But the people of France did not want this to be. You see, the French people know in their bones that every …

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FRANCE: Thousands March In Paris To Protest Against Same-Sex Marriage

As expected, tens of thousands of Catholics and Muslims marched through the streets of Paris today in opposition to the same-sex marriage bill proposed by President Francois Hollande and his Socialist Party. Organisers reserved five high-speed trains and 900 buses to bring protesters from provincial towns to the capital, some before dawn, to join Parisians and display the extent of …

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Brian Brown Is In France

“A massive rebellion against gay marriage is brewing in France. I’m here now, and I’ll report to you first hand from the rally planned for Sunday. To read the news accounts in the U.S., you would think gay marriage is inevitable here. Like everywhere. That’s what they always say, right? Recognize that argument for what it is: a tactic to …

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French Gays Against Gay Marriage

A handful of French gay men has launched Homovox, a website to express their opposition to the marriage equality movement. “Ex-gay” advocate Robert Oscar Lopez writes on American Thinker: This is important stuff. If France can hold off the national legalization of gay marriage (which seems a difficult fight at this point), then there may be hope for the United …

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FRANCE: Socialist Party Offers Compromise On Gay Marriage Bill

Just days ahead of a joint Catholic-Muslim protest that is forecast to draw as many as 200,000 participants, France’s Socialist Party today compromised on its same-sex marriage bill by dropping the provision for the government to provide procreation services to gay couples. The compromise, according the Radio France, is designed to soften opposition to the marriage equality bill due for …

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FRANCE: Muslims To Join Catholics In Anti-Gay Marriage Rally

A coalition of French Islamic groups has signed on to join the Catholic Church in a “major” anti-gay marriage rally to take place in Paris on Sunday. Leaders of almost all main faiths in France have spoken out against the law, but not called on their followers to march in Sunday’s demonstration to avoid giving the opposition campaign an overly …

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Vladimir Putin Grants Actor Gerard Depardieu Russian Citizenship

Associated Press: “French actor, Gerard Depardieu was granted Russian citizenship Thursday by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The actor is hoping to avoid France’s proposed super tax on millionaires.”

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FRANCE: Tens Of Thousands Rally In Paris For Same-Sex Marriage

Reuters reports on yesterday’s rally: Police said about 60,000 demonstrators turned out, fewer than the 100,000 who protested last month against the law due to be passed by mid-2013. Paris’s gay mayor Bertrand Delanoe joined the march along with several other left-wing politicians. Marching along to drumbeats and jazz music, the protesters waved rainbow flags and held up signs saying …

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Russian Orthodox Church Backs French Catholics In Marriage Battle

The Russian Orthodox Church has issued a letter vowing its solidarity with French Catholics in their battle against the same-sex marriage bill promised by President Francois Hollande. In a letter, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the Moscow Patriarchate’s external relations director, praised Cardinal André Vingt-Trois, president of France’s bishops’ conference, for his “consistent and uncompromising” opposition to same-sex marriage which represented …

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France’s First Lady: I Can’t Wait To Take Part In My First Same-Sex Wedding

France’s First Lady says she is looking forward to being part of the wedding party of gay friends once marriage is legalized. Valerie Trierweiler, the girlfriend of French President Francois Hollande, has given plans to legalise gay marriage with her personal seal of approval by announcing she will be a witness at one of the first ceremonies. While her partner’s …

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France To Recognize Palestine

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius announced today that France will support Palestine’s bid for “nonmember observer status” at the United Nations. Presuming that that France follows through, it will become the first major European power to recognize Palestine as a legitimate state. The support of France, a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, is the most significant boost …

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From The Mayor Of Reykjavik

Gnarr’s link goes to a BBC story about an anti-gay marriage protest in France attended by 70,000 people yesterday.

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