In support of marriage and the traditional family: the mainstream media largely ignored the story, but Paris, Lyon, Brussels, Bucharest, Madrid, Warsaw and Rome drew large crowds in support of marriage and the traditional family on Sunday.

Pro-Family Demonstrations Draw Throngs Throughout Europe

But you wouldn’t know it, given the scant media coverage.

by EDWARD PENTIN

The mainstream media largely ignored the story, but Paris, Lyon, Brussels, Bucharest, Madrid, Warsaw and Rome drew large crowds in support of marriage and the traditional family on Sunday.

The protests were led and inspired by La Manif Pour Tous (Protest for Everyone), a rapidly growing French group of associations that launched in January 2013 with a massive rally in Paris against same-sex “marriage” legislation. Despite the outcry, France passed the legislation.

Police said 80,000 people took to the streets of the French capital on Feb. 2, although La Manif Pour Tous put the figure much higher, closer to half a million. At least 20,000 are reported to have marched in Lyon.

The French protesters were marching against a raft of policies being pushed through by President Francois Hollande. Since imposing same-sex “marriage” on the French last year, the current government is promoting legislation in favor of medically assisted procreation techniques for lesbian couples, in vitro fertilization, a further relaxation of abortion laws and an experimental school program aimed at “combating gender stereotypes.”

Interior Minister Manuel Valls warned that “no excesses” would be tolerated during the marches and ordered a heavy security presence, although the protests — primarily made up of families with young children in strollers — mostly proceeded peacefully.

Jean-Pierre Delaume-Myard, spokesman for La Manif Pour Tous, who is also same-sex attracted, told Vatican Radio on Jan. 31 that children are the “first victims” of same-sex “marriage.”

“It deprives them of a father and a mother,” he said. “The desire to have a child by a homosexual cannot justify any kind of solution to fill this gap. Every child has the right to have a father and a mother.”

Delaume-Myard said the legislation to redefine marriage — known as the “Taubira law” — was imposed on the French people by repressing public opposition (the European Court of Human Rights is currently investigating the charge). He argued that the “majority of homosexuals had never asked for such a thing,” and the proof is that “civil unions” have existed in France for years and yet only 4% of homosexuals have ever opted for them. “So homosexuals have never asked for gay marriage, let alone children,” he said.

Medically assisted procreation and surrogate pregnancies, he added, are “even worse,” as they regard women and children as commodities.

Elsewhere in Europe

Beyond France, the protesters were marching on Sunday against the Lunacek Report on equality, with regards to sexual orientation and gender identity in Europe. The report calls for a new European Union “road map to combat ‘homophobia’” and demands that special rights for homosexual persons should now be considered human rights. It also calls on the European Commission to promote “equality and nondiscrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity throughout its youth and education programs.”

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