This Is What Homophobia Looks Like In France
Yikes. Thousands of people protested against France’s proposed gay marriage bill this weekend. Here’s what that looked like.
Background: France approved a draft law to allow same-sex marriage, saying it meant progress for the whole society. The law would also grant gay couples the right to adopt children, but not to use assisted procreation methods such as artificial inseminati
1. The law was said to be a done deal, but recent opposition like this protest might have put it in jeopardy.
2. At the protest there were lots of big banners, like this one that says: “France needs children, not homosexuals.”
3. “The family is the base of the nation”
6. There were also lots of signs. This one says: “No to homosexual marriages.”
9. “No to the government bill for the marriage for everyone”
10. “A real marriage, a true mom, a true daddy”
15. There were also a lot of people yelling and shouting.
25. Lots of old people.
32. Oh, yeah, and an adult baby.
This picture is actually from a protest on Nov. 8. I couldn’t NOT include it, though.
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martinw10 3 months ago“Stop the destruction of OUR values”? Really? And that doesn’t work both ways how? And here I thought the French were more progressive than this. Silly me. I guess they are the idiots I’ve been hearing for some time now. I was trying to give them the benefit of the doubt. Silly me again.
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Anarchasis 6 months agoThere are tell-tale signs that explain the kind of people we’re dealing with here: the French flag with a sacred heart on top of it denotes fundamentalist Catholics and possibly royalists; that weird white powerish logo on the first photo is just that, and these are the latest fascist thugs to grab headlines in France. The little kids dressed in navy blue with berets in the “Families!” photo are most likely Scouts of Europe, a notoriously ultra-fundamentalist offshoot of scoutism whose leaders have regularly been sentenced for abusing kids.
So there you have it. There’s plenty of regular conservative support for this, but still. These are the faces of homophobia in France, and they’re not the mainstream. -
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Nostalgia75 6 months agoI am so disappointed at these people protesting… Unfortunately this battle for equality may go well past my lifetime, and Im in the early twenties still >.< I can’t wait for these hatred ideals to be buried into the history of time
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Anarchasis 6 months ago
Here I thought you were bigots, and lo and behold! This video tells me you’re bigots. Thank you, Cedric.
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cedric 6 months ago
Hello, I am french and I can tell you that most people are NOT against Gay Marriage. They are against Gay Adoption. The problem is that the law that allows Gay Marriage automatically allows Gay Adoption. Meaning that a child who has lost his father and mother may find himself adopted by 2 fathers or 2 mothers who will be considered as his legal parent. We think that it’s not right. If you think that we french people are homophobic, then most European contries are homophobic since only 8 of them allow Gay Marriage. And you can also say that America is homophobic because 40 states out of 50 don’t allow Gay Marriage. The reason why there are these protests is because our new President François Hollande is imposing us this law without any debate and without asked the French People to vote for it. He thinks that since this law was a promise of his presidential compaign, no debate is necessary. He just forgets that all people who voted him don’t agree with this very specific law. It’s like the governer of a State suddenly decided to apply Gay Marriage without asking his people to vote. Our President wants to apply other laws like allowing active euthanasia or allowing foreigners to vote in our country (!)
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cialisinwonderland 6 months agoThere is no need to ask people to vote for or against it. It is a right, and rights don’t get voted upon. You just have them. And yes, you are homophobic, no matter how you try to talk it down to make it look like claiming “being together is ok, but marrying and adopting is bad” it’s a reasonable position. It isn’t. And yes, 40 US states and most European countries still don’t allow it, so? That doesn’t make your position a sensible one, only shows how long it still takes to stop being religiously-driven a**holes.
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A.Leigh 6 months ago
And why, pray tell, is allowing gay people to adopt children a problem? You say “a child who has lost his father and mother may find himself adopted by 2 fathers or 2 mothers who will be considered as his legal parents” like it’s a bad thing, but I think it sure beats the alternative possibility where a child who’s lost his father and mother may find himself passed from foster home to foster home until he turns 18 and gets kicked out of the system (not sure if it works that way in France, but it can and often does in the US).
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Maren W. 6 months ago
They’ve had civil unions (PACS) since 1999, so yes…? This protest represents a small minority. If by “once again” you’re referring to the veil/burka laws, I do agree with you there, but those arise from the national commitment to laïcité, which is also the reason that 60% of French people do NOT oppose the marriage equality bill.
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johnc53 6 months agoGay Marriage.
A subtle beast, but nonetheless profound.
WHY do we (humans) judge each other?
Is it for fame, or perhaps religion?
Do we feel the need to belittle our fellow brethren because of their sexual orientation solely based on our own insecurities? Or is it more complex? WHY do we feel the need to separate each other, by a hair? My love is love. Their love is love, LOVE IS UNIVERSAL. To call it anything else is asinine. My generation is that of COMPASSION, speak the truth and your heart will follow. I don’t consider gender in love because love is a feeling, not a choice. -
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hoytietoity 6 months ago
I’ll never understand why people care so much about what other people do or who they love. How does two people getting married affect anyone but those two people? Meh. Idiots.
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A.Leigh 6 months ago
It’s not always religion. There are nonreligious people who are against gay marriage, as well. And France (well, Europe in general, really) doesn’t have the same religiously oriented atmosphere the US does. A lot of people just think it’s weird. The plus side of that, however, is it’s a lot easier to change someone’s mind from “weird” to “acceptable” than from “heinous sinful abomination” to “acceptable,” usually.
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Anarchasis 6 months ago
Those people are mostly Christian fundamentalists and ultra-conservatives though. So there you go.
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silverhellion 6 months ago
1 mom, 1 dad, for every child. That wouldn’t be a problem to begin with if the orphans had them already.
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