THESE photos of Sunday’s Manif Pour Tous demonstration in Paris are exhilarating. It’s not just the huge crowds or the fact that all different ages are represented or the regional flags and patriotic colors or the Parisian buildings and streets. It’s the signs people are carrying: “Everyone is born of a mother and father,” “No, to the destruction of civilization,” “One mother and one father: It’s hereditary,” “Yes to human dignity,” “I am not for sale” and many more.

Common sense has woken from a deep sleep. That’s how it seems when reading these banners. Or as Tugdual Derville, a leader of Manif Pour Tous and a father of six children, recently said, “It is the soul of France that is waking up.”

Homosexual “marriage” is now legal in France, but it never will be a settled or accepted institution there. Such is the power of truth, once it is embraced by large numbers of people.

By the way, notice the absence of Muslims in these pictures despite the large Muslim presence in Paris and the absolute Islamic prohibition against homosexuality. Why aren’t they here? The answer is simple. They do not see themselves as Frenchmen.

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Alex writes:

Regarding the absence of Muslims from the French protests, this was discussed on Lawrence Auster’s VFR in January. I hope I can be forgiven for quoting myself at length. Here is what I wrote in the comments responding to a leftist reader:

Muslim settlers in a Western country support any initiatives that weaken the remaining traditional elements of the society, which are the only elements that still give the country any remnants of its strength. A weakened country is easier for them to take over, and then the old regime’s funny laws will mean nothing. Homomarriage legalization is a major blow to a country’s traditional foundations. That’s why the recent huge demonstration against homomarriage in France, despite Islam’s hard line against homosexualism, did not consist of a raging Muslim mob but “essentially white Catholic France in the street,” in the words of a Hollande adviser, even though some Muslims joined it.

Of course “one of the most conservative Muslim leaders in [Canada], Abdul Salam Elminyawi, an old Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood guy,” was all for homomarriage. “Conservative Muslim leaders”—i.e. hard-line Islamists, regardless of how they present themselves to those who want to believe they are moderates, such as Ken Hechtman—are the leaders of the invasion. Why would they oppose it when the host society wants to weaken itself?

Name a single liberal advance in a Western country which the country’s Muslims’ leaders have opposed. Muslims and liberals, including homosexuals, have a common enemy, and that’s why they are allied. As soon as the alliance wins power, the stronger, more ruthless member of the alliance will eliminate the weaker, idealistic one, also known as a bunch of useful idiots. This scenario has played out countless times in history, e.g. in Russia in 1917. [LA replies: don’t leave out a much more recent and more relevant precedent: Egypt, where hardline Muslims and liberal democrats cooperated in overthrowing the Mubarak regime, then the Muslims took complete power and shafted the liberals.]

The relevant posts are here here and here.

Mary writes:

These developments in France are heartening.

I remember having a conversation with a liberal in-law a few years back. At the dinner table one night he put forth the idea that Muslims hate us because we are, I’m paraphrasing, but basically, we are mean. If we would only show them that we don’t want to boss them around, then they will understand and like us and all will be well. I was astounded at his naivete – he had no idea that his own way of life in particular, married as he was to a wife with a big job who brought home a much bigger salary than he did, was completely repugnant to Muslims.

The liberal is unaware of the important insight he surrendered when he spurned tradition and religion in the name of a new social order. Funny how liberals always claim to be open minded. Devout Catholics, Christians, Jews – these are the people who fear Islam because they understand religious devotion. The liberal doesn’t fear for the homosexuals he supports either, having no sense that if Islam ever took over they might face slaughter. He sees no conflict. The liberal fears nothing in his state of ignorance bliss.

 Buck writes:

Though I doubt that these inspiring demonstrations will halt or reverse the destruction of one man, one woman, one marriage; the demonstrators are exhilarating. I clicked through the photos, then slowed as I was drawn in. I began to look closely at the faces and postures to get a sense of them. What a great looking people. I wanted to be with them. They exude a natural, easy confidence of purpose, a rightness and a togetherness without the slightest hint of pretense, doubt or conflict. Look at them closely. They look like one big, happy, loving and natural family. At the last, I realized how I suddenly admired them.

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