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Bjorn Jensen 04-24-2013 03:26 AM

the French are at it again
 
As if the most pro-sodomy country in the world couldn't get any more gay, it happened :angry:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3139470.html

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PARIS — France legalized gay marriage on Tuesday after a wrenching national debate that exposed deep conservatism in the nation's heartland and triggered huge demonstrations that tapped into intense discontent with the Socialist government. Within hours, fiery clashes broke out between protesters and riot police.

Legions of officers stayed late into the night, and a protest against the measure turned violent near the Invalides complex of museums and monuments. Protesters threw glass bottles, cans and metal bars at police, who responded with tear gas.

It was an issue that galvanized the country's faltering right, which had been decimated by infighting and their election loss to President Francois Hollande. France is the 14th country to legalize gay marriage nationwide _and the most populous.

The measure passed easily in the Socialist-majority Assembly, 331-225, just after the president of the legislative body expelled a disruptive protester in pink, the color adopted by French opponents of gay marriage.

Justice Minister Christiane Taubira told lawmakers that the first weddings could be as soon as June.

"We believe that the first weddings will be beautiful and that they'll bring a breeze of joy, and that those who are opposed to them today will surely be confounded when they are overcome with the happiness of the newlyweds and the families," she said.

Earlier in the day, there appeared to be more police than protesters outside the Parliament building on Paris' Left Bank, but that calculation soon shifted as night fell and thousands gathered to protest the bill. The protest dwindled to a few stalwarts shortly before midnight, when the violence began among a few hundred demonstrators including some who carried signs saying "Socialist dictatorship."

Claire Baron, 41, a mother of two, said that she "will oppose the bill until the end."

"I'll keep going to the protests, I don't give in. The bill is not effective yet, the president of the Republic must listen to our voices. We are here to defend family values. Children need a mom and a dad," Baron said.

In recent weeks, violent attacks against gay couples have spiked and some legislators have received threats – including Claude Bartelone, the Assembly president, who got a gunpowder-filled envelope on Monday.

One of the biggest protests against same-sex marriage drew together hundreds of thousands of people bused in from the French provinces – conservative activists, schoolchildren with their parents, retirees, priests and others. That demonstration ended in blasts of tear gas, as right-wing rabble-rousers, some in masks and hoods, led the charge against police, damaging cars along the Champs-Elysees avenue and making a break for the presidential palace.

Following the vote members of the gay and lesbian community flocked to a square in central Paris, just behind City Hall, to celebrate the vote.

"I feel immense joy, gigantic joy," said 39-year old Sylvain Rouzel. "At last, everyone has the same rights. This is huge! France was lagging behind. We had to wait 14 years after the civil union to finally obtain the right to get married, with equal rights for everyone. I feel great!"

Paris' openly gay mayor, Bertrand Delanoe, was among the crowd of hundreds gathered for the street celebration in the Marais, the city's historic gay neighborhood.

When Hollande promised to legalize gay marriage, it was seen as relatively uncontroversial. The issue has become a touchstone as his popularity has sunk to unprecedented lows, largely over France's ailing economy.

"The opposition is in a weakened position, but they know which buttons to press in order to get a reaction in society, in a country as liberal as France, where nobody thought it was an issue," said Hossein Alizadeh, a coordinator with the U.S.-based International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission who has followed the issue.

But the most visible face in the fight against gay marriage – a former comedienne who goes by the name of Frigide Barjot – said the movement named "A Protest for Everyone" will continue beyond the law's passage and possibly field candidates in 2014 municipal elections. She said anyone involved in protest violence would be marginalized, but blamed the government for its failure to listen.

"The violence comes from the way in which this was imposed," Barjot told France Info radio.

French conservatives, demoralized and divided by the election loss of standard-bearer Nicolas Sarkozy, found common cause in opposing same-sex marriage. Hoping to keep the issue alive, the conservative UMP party planned to challenge the law in the Constitutional Council.

"The controversy that we've seen has been a stoked and manipulated controversy that's really kind of a last-ditch attempt to block the tide of history," said Evan Wolfson, president of the American activist group Freedom to Marry, which he said worked with the French on the bill. "I don't think it spoke to a deep or wide opposition among the French people."

French civil unions, allowed since 1999, are at least as popular among heterosexuals as among gay and lesbian couples. But that law has no provisions for adoption, and the strongest opposition in France as far as same-sex couples goes comes when children are involved. According to recent polls, just over half of French are opposed to adoption by same-sex couples – about the same number who said they favored same-sex marriage.

Christophe Crepin, spokesman for the police union UNSA, says the extraordinary security Tuesday included a total of about 4,000 officers in the area near the National Assembly building and water cannon positioned nearby.

On the cover of Tuesday's Liberation newspaper, the famed gay photographers Pierre and Gilles took over the front page and several of the inside pages, splashing them with some of their most provocative photos, including one of three soccer players – nude but for the footwear – facing the camera.

In New Zealand, where gay marriage enjoys popular support, people gathered outside Parliament and joined in singing a traditional Maori love ballad after a vote last week making it legal. Nine states and the District of Columbia in the U.S. also recognize such marriages, but the federal government does not.
God is not going to like this, expect lots of earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, tornados, volcano erruptions, school massacres and terrorist bombings very soon, France!

Pastor Ezekiel 04-24-2013 03:35 AM

Re: the French are at it again
 
What? I thought that gay marriage was invented in Godless France. They had to legalize it? :huh:

James Hutchins 04-24-2013 11:00 AM

Re: the French are at it again
 
Great.

Not only have the streets there been filled with dog defecation, it will be joined by the rectal expulsion of fecal coated condoms.

Wear your waders!

Pastor Isaac Peters 04-24-2013 11:30 AM

Re: the French are at it again
 
The cheese-eating surrender monkeys will go along with anything, as long as it outrages the Lord.

Paragon of virtue 04-24-2013 12:45 PM

Re: the French are at it again
 
They always called it Gay Paree for a reason. I visited Paris about a year ago...it was much filthier than you would think. I had a good time but at the end of the day one of those gypsy thieves stole my wallet. It's a true story. I didn't know if my wife would ever stop yapping about it. She had earlier advised me to let her keep the wallet in her bag. I, of course, said, "No way!" I'd rather have my money and documents stolen than to listen to any woman, be she my wife or not. My wallet was promptly stolen. I stand by my decision and would still make the same choice if I had it to do over again because listening to your old lady is about the worst mistake you can make!

lukasekman 04-24-2013 02:24 PM

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The U.S. Department of Family Values is now investigating the magnitude of the gay marriage threat to families and freedom. Rarely is the question asked - is our families prepared to combat the threat or do we need a preemptive armed response?
If France do not immediately refudiate their vicious attack on family values, and if the Department of Family Values consider that families need additional armed support, I believe that America should invade France.

Titus Templeton 04-24-2013 09:07 PM

Re: the French are at it again
 
So they are now finally allowed to adopt children and put baguettes into their butts?

Bjorn Jensen 04-25-2013 04:05 AM

Re: the French are at it again
 
While searching through the internet, i found this picture which i think pretty much says it all:
http://sphotos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphoto...28448932_n.jpg

Zechariah Smyth 04-25-2013 04:52 AM

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The measure passed easily in the Socialist-majority Assembly, 331-225, just after the president of the legislative body expelled a disruptive protester in pink, the color adopted by French opponents of gay marriage.
Good grief, even the frenchies who are against queer marriage are fags.

:thumbdown:

YiC,

Zech

James Hutchins 04-25-2013 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Paragon of virtue (Post 997628)
They always called it Gay Paree for a reason. I visited Paris about a year ago...it was much filthier than you would think. I had a good time but at the end of the day one of those gypsy thieves stole my wallet. It's a true story. I didn't know if my wife would ever stop yapping about it. She had earlier advised me to let her keep the wallet in her bag. I, of course, said, "No way!" I'd rather have my money and documents stolen than to listen to any woman, be she my wife or not. My wallet was promptly stolen. I stand by my decision and would still make the same choice if I had it to do over again because listening to your old lady is about the worst mistake you can make!

Almost the same thing happened to me years ago. I was there on a business trip and all the cash was taken from my wallet and I was spray with cheap perfume to daze and confuse me. Once I gathered my self, I found the perpetrator and she had all my money! Can you beleive it, a few days later, she did it to me again. Twice.


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