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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, ...

‘Gay marriage’ will break down incest taboo: French cardinal

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LYONS, September 20, 2012,  (LifeSiteNews.com ) –  Should France legalize same-sex “marriage”, there is little reason to think that legalised incest or polygamy will not be the next item on the list for the sexual revolutionaries, according to France’s senior Catholic prelate. Cardinal Philippe Barbarin , the Archbishop of Lyons , annoyed one of France’s most prominent homosexual politicians when he said this weekend that that “ gay marriage ” legislation promised by the country’s new Socialist government, “could have innumerable consequences”. John-Henry Westen interviewing Cardinal Barbarin in 2008 in Quebec City. Steve Jalsevac/Lif Cardinal Barbarin told RCF Christian radio, “Afterward they will want to create couples with three or four members. And after that, perhaps one day the taboo of incest will fall”. “The first page of the Bible, which says that marriage unites a man and a woman, has more force and truth, crossing cultures and centuries, than inciden...