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300,000 DEMONSTRATE
AGAINST GAY MARRAIGES While
PARIS Holding aloft ancient flags
and young children, hundreds of
thousands of people converged
Sunday on the Eiffel Tower to protest the
French president’s plan to legalize samesex
marriage and thus allow same-sex
couples to adopt and conceive children.
The opposition to President Francois
Hollande’s plan has underscored divisions
among the secular-but-Catholic
French, especially more traditional rural
areas versus urban enclaves. But while
polls show the majority of French still
support legalizing gay marriage, that
backing gets more lukewarm when children
come into play. The protest march
started at three points across Paris, filling
boulevards throughout the city as
demonstrators walked three miles to the
grounds of France’s most recognizable
monument. Paris police estimated the
crowd at 340,000, making it one of the
largest demonstrations in Paris since an
education protest in 1984.
“This law is going to lead to a change
of civilization that we don’t want,” said
Philippe Javaloyes, a literature teacher
who bused in with 300 people from
Franche Comte in the far east. “We have
nothing against different ways of living,
but we think that a child must grow up
with a mother and a father.”
Public opposition spearheaded by religious
leaders has chipped away at the
popularity of Hollande’s plan in recent
months. About 52 percent of French favor
legalizing gay marriage, according to
a survey released Sunday, down from as
high as 65 percent in August.
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 or
assisted reproduction, which are at the
heart of the latest debate.
Hollande’s Socialist Party has sidestepped
the debate on assisted reproduction,
promising to examine it in March
after party members split on including
it in the latest proposal. That hasn’t assuaged
the concerns of many in Sunday’s
protest, however, who fear it’s only a matter
of time.
“They’re talking about putting into
national identity cards Parent 1, Parent
2, Parent 3, Parent 4. Mom, dad and the
kids are going to be wiped off the map,
and that’s going to be bad for any country,
any civilization,” said Melissa Michel, a
Franco-American mother of five who was
among a group from the south of France
on a train reserved specifically for the
protest.
Support for same-sex marriage — and
especially adoption by same-sex couples
— has been particularly tenuous outside
Paris, and people from hundreds of miles
from the French capital marched Sunday
beneath regional flags with emblems dating
back to the Middle Ages, chanting
“Daddy, Mommy.” If the French parliament
approves the plan, France would
become the 12th country in the world to
legalize same-sex marriage, and the biggest
so far in terms of economic and diplomatic
influence.
Harlem Desir, the leader of Hollande’s
Socialist Party, said the protest would not
affect the proposal’s progress. The Socialists
control Parliament, where the bill is
expected to be introduced on Tuesday,
with a vote following public debate at the
end of January.“The right to protest is
protected in our country, but the Socialists
are determined to give the legal right
to marry and adopt to all those who love
each other,” he said. “This is the first time
in decades in our country that the right
and the extreme right are coming into the
streets together to deny new rights to the
French.”
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PG. 19
ORANGE COUNTY
SEXUAL ORIENTATION VOTE
BY SHARON FERRER - 1270 RADIO
you were probably at
home, sleeping confident that
the day after your child will
be learning about Math, English, Science
and Social Studies your child will be fully
exposed to gay talk, cross dressing and
teachings that only you as a parent should
have the right to decide not your school
board chairman Bill Sublette. You would
think they should learn about gay rights,
gay marriages and gender issues when
they are old enough to internalize, understand
and assimilate this type of information.
On December 11, 2012 at a meeting
where the Spanish press was not invited
nor conservative groups and Christian
organizations, for as long as 6 hours Fox
35, Channel 13, Channel 6 and Channel 4
were waiting in a meeting that took more
than 6 hours, this “new policy” passed to
protect gay and transgender students and
teachers in the Orange County school district.
After a 6-2 vote which came around
2 a.m. Your next question might be why
until 2:00 a.m.? Because at that time people
would not be around to ask questions,
organize picket lines opposing the “new
policy” or the press would not be covering
the vote at that time for the news shows.
Sharron Ferrer, our reporter asked
Chairman Sublette, since the Orange
County policy includes sexual orientation,
“why should there be a gender identity
or expression amendment to the policy?”
Reporter Ferrer also asked how many
cases have been submitted stating discrimination
against gay students and gay
employees that have provoked to push for
the amendment of the current policy. Also
asked what the reason was for the citizens
and press not to be informed of this
meeting previously and to be revealed by
a citizen via telephone tip which caused
an incendiary flood of telephone calls to
local radio station 1270, the school board
and Bill Sublette’s private attorney law
office. Sublette sternly expressed that the
questions were going to be answered after
the vote was passed and where he ended
up voting in favor .
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