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Vogue Paris to feature first ‘transgender’ man on cover

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A man who has taken drastic measures to make himself appear to be a woman will be on the cover of  Vogue Paris  next month. Brazilian model and actor Valentina Sampaio is an "absolute equal" to female fashion icons, editor-in-chief Emmanuelle Alt wrote. "Apart from one small detail, Valentina, the femme fatale, was born a boy. It's a detail one would prefer not to have to mention... but Valentina is on the cover of Vogue this month, not just for her looks or her sparkling personality, but because despite herself she embodies an age-old arduous struggle to be recognized and not to be perceived as something Other." In 2016, Sampaio appeared in a L'Oreal ad about how being a woman "transcends the body."  "This is my first Women's Day...officially," he says as he gets ready to be photographed as a woman for a new ID. Sampaio has   also appeared   on the cover of  Elle Brasil . Sampaio is "changing the face of f

March for Marriage in Paris was so huge it shocked the organizers

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PARIS, October 18, 2016 – The “Manif pour tous” has done it again. On Sunday, the French capital was once again the meeting place for tens of thousands of peaceful but determined demonstrators demanding laws that respect true marriage and ban artificial procreation, especially surrogate motherhood and   in vitro   fertilization for same-sex couples. To be honest, in the absence of legislative deadlines, four and a half years into François Hollande ’s presidential mandate, no one was expecting an enormous turn-out. But some 200,000 people, according to the organizers – the police only counted 24,000, something of an understatement… – marched through the wide avenues of the residential 16th   arrondissement   à Paris towards the Place du Trocadéro , across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower , in the still warm autumn sun. Even the organizers were taken by surprise: the venue was too small for the crowds whose steady flow kept pouring onto the square between 3 p.m. and 5.30 p.m.,

Why Obama’s lie on marriage matters

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English: Barack Obama delivers a speech at the University of Southern California (Video of the speech) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) March 6, 2015 ( ThePublicDiscourse.com ) -- When running for the presidency in 2008, Barack Obama misled the voters about his true position on the question of same-sex marriage. This is not an accusation made by one of the president’s political enemies, but an admission made by one of his closest political advisors: David Axelrod . According to  Time  magazine, Axelrod’s new book about his career in politics reveals that candidate Obama really believed in same-sex marriage, but he publicly said that he opposed it because he feared the electoral consequences of his real convictions. In response to the mini-burst of commentary and indignation that this news has provoked, Axelrod has complained—not very convincingly—that his story has been distorted. In an  interview  on the question, he derides criticism of the president’s dishonesty as “gotcha” poli

Protecting marriage isn’t enough – we must oppose gay ‘civil unions’ too

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Pacs day demonstration to request a Civil Unions Bill in Italy as well. Rome, May 17 2005, photo by Stefano Bolognini. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Philippe Ariño, one of the original initiators of the French “Manif pour tous” rallies against the legalization of same-sex “marriage” in November 2012, is suggesting that opposition to the law and its probable developments needs to be coherent and complete if it hopes to be efficient. In a recent and widely-circulated  article  published on his blog, he writes that the objective must be to put an end to legalized “civil unions” as well. Ariño, a non-practicing homosexual , left the “Manif pour tous” by March 2013, criticizing the movement’s figurehead, Frigide Barjot, for her stands on “homosexual love” and her insistence that civil unions were not only acceptable, but should benefit from a more favorable legal framework. Barjot herself was to be ousted from the organization for the same reason, but the “Manif pour tous” still take

French gvmt withdraws anti-family law after hundreds of thousands march in Paris

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PARIS , February 5, 2014 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - The French government withdrew a controversial draft law on the family on Monday, putting it on hold until 2015, one day after giant pro-family demonstrations drew several hundred thousand marchers in Paris and 40,000 more in Lyon, including Cardinal François Barbarin. The law’s main aim was to give legal status to stepfathers and stepmothers in blended families and to promote mediation in divorce proceedings. Simplified divorce was also on the cards, an official report having recommended that “non-confrontational” separations be subject to a simple registration in the hands of the clerk of the court. Hundreds of thousands marched in Paris on Sunday to protest an anti-family law put forward by the Hollande government. Credit: Jeanne Smits / LifeSiteNews.com The withdrawal has been characterized by the mainstream press as a major victory for the grassroots movement against same-sex “marriage” that launched in November 2012. T

Hundreds expected to protest anti-free speech ‘homophobia’ law in Rome, Paris

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ROME , - Up to 500 people are expected to hold a demonstration later tonight outside the Italian parliament to protest  a bill that would criminalize homophobia and "transphobia,"  something constitutional experts believe would shut down citizens' right to free speech , especially for Christians. The event is organized by the recently formed Italian branch of  Manif pour Tous . It will be matched by a demonstration in Paris by the French branch of the group, outside the Italian embassy. The group contends that the bill would stifle any principled opposition to the homosexual political agenda, including plans that they say are already afoot in parliament to institute homosexual civil unions or “ gay marriage ” and homosexual adoptions in Italy . Manif pour Tous Italia has frankly called the bill a “gag law” that, if passed, would “prevent associations and free citizens from making reasoned opposition to civil measures relating to same-sex marriage and ado

Police used systematic violent force against French traditional marriage demonstrators: report

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A report  will be presented today at a hearing at the Council of Europe detailing systematic use of excessive and violent police actions by France’s socialist government to suppress opposition to the same-sex “marriage” law. (Read the report  here  - PDF) The report on the French “Manif pour Tous and its police repression” will be presented in conjunction with today’s session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and will be presented to the United Nations in Geneva . Reports of police violence, including arbitrary arrest and pepper spraying, were rife during the demonstrations against the new gay "marriage" law. The hearing was organized by the European People’s Party and the Strasbourg-based European Centre for Law and Justice , in the presence of Luca Volontè, President of the EPP Group . The report contains numerous testimonies of victims of police brutality in the course of several mass demonstrations against “gay marriage.” Since late 20