I wouldn't have expected this kind of protest in France which generally has had a much more liberal attitude toward sexual values than America. Hundreds of thousands of French citizens are protesting a gay marriage proposal--this is not something seen in America which presumably has a more "conservative" Christian culture.
About 340,000 people joined today’s marches, according to
police estimates, while organizers indicated a turnout of more
than 800,000. Protesters dancing to hip-hop music carried pink
flags with white images of the traditional family: man, woman
and two children.
But a gay marriage bill has stalled in the Illinois State Senate even with some business leaders and corporations such as Google and Orbitz favoring it. Religious groups, including Muslims, have lobbied against it.
From the Witherspoon Institute.
Since the late 1990s, France has offered same-sex couples “PACs” or
civil unions, so the issue of lovers living together is not the powder
keg. Though still mostly (if nominally) Catholic, the French are by and
large willing to stay out of the bedrooms of people who love one
another, irrespective of sex.
Such live-and-let-live philosophy does not apply when the citizens
see a threat to the nation’s children. Here is where Americans must
follow their playbook closely, because it is probably the surest way to
break the stalemate in the United States about marriage and the
Fourteenth Amendment.
And an evangelical pastor has to pull-out of the inaugural prayer because of a sermon he gave in the 1990s on homosexuality as a sin.
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