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Italian homophobia bill will ‘be used to persecute the Church’: HLI Rome head

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ROME , January 16, 2014 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – The Italian Senate is again considering the “Mancino law,” a bill that proposes to criminalize “homophobia,” but this time the bill is gaining increasing opposition – both from Christians, who are concerned about civil liberties , and from homosexual activists, who consider that amendments have rendered it “toothless.” On Saturday, a large rally was held in Rome against the bill organized by the recently formed Manif Pour Tous Italia, a civil liberties association that is concerned that such laws curtail human rights, rather than defending them. Opponents have been vocal in their concerns that the bill will threaten Article 21 in the Italian constitution that guarantees freedom of thought and opinion and the safeguards of the natural family in Articles 29, 30 and 32 that specify that marriage can only be between a man and a woman. Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro, a secular as well as canon lawyer and the head of the Rome office of  Huma

Pro-gay ‘marriage’ march in France eclipsed by much larger traditional marriage rally

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January 31, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - An estimated 120,000 people, according to the police, demonstrated in Paris on Sunday afternoon in support of government plans to legalize same-sex “marriage” and abortion. Organizers of the event – LGBT associations, “homoparental” family unions, trade unions, high school unions and the socialist, communist, leftwing and green parties – claim 400,000 people took to the streets in the sunny winter weather. If police numbers are correct that would indicate as many as ten times the number of people took part in t he demonstration against homosexual “marriage”  earlier this month. According to some estimates more than a million people participated in the marches opposing gay “marriage.” Given that Sunday’s event was a response to that enormous show of force, it would appear the defenders of “pro-true marriage” won hands down.  Pro-gay “marriage” campaigners clearly anticipated their loss. On Saturday, homosexualist leaders were already

Pro-family rallies in France: unexpectedly massive and wildly successful…but a little odd

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November 19, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - A series of demonstrations against same-sex “marriage” and adoption in Paris and other major French cities met with an unexpected huge success over the weekend. Over 200,000 thousand people rallied on Saturday afternoon on the Place Denfert-Rochereau to march towards the Invalides, forcing the mainstream media to take notice and cover the event. The Paris metro was disrupted by the sheer number of people, young and old, alone or with their family, who converged on the meeting point. Walking from the head of the march to the rear was quite impossible as waves of tightly packed groups of demonstrators started walking, leaving a bit of space for the thousands who kept pouring onto the Place. No one, least of all François Hollande and his government, which has approved the draft law on “marriage for all” for discussion in Parliament on January 14th, had foreseen such popular interest. Gay “marriage,” the mainstream media like to lecture,