Protests in France Draw Large Crowds
October 6, 2014
FRENCH police estimate 80,000 people marched in Paris yesterday — organizers say there were half a million — at the latest Manif Pour Tous pro-family march against artificial reproduction, surrogacy and same-sex “marriage.” Demonstrations were held in other cities as well; 30,000 people were estimated to be on the streets in Bordeaux. See posts here and here at Galliawatch. There is very little coverage by the American media.
These are exciting events. The shopping carts above are a symbol of the commodification of children. What a perfect and clever image! The French in large numbers grasp the psychological atmosphere of childhood. They know that a child cannot be treated like a piece of merchandise or be deliberately denied a father or mother without suffering irreparable harm.
It is ironic that these marches took place on the day the Family Synod of Bishops opened in Rome.Was there even a tweet from the “pope” in support of the march? It seems not, even though so many of the marchers were expressing a sensus Catholicus in their defense of children and the wholeness of the family.
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L.R. writes:
According to English Manif:
A turnout of some ten-thousand pro-family demonstrators filled the main squares of 100 Italian cities from north to south yesterday, only to meet with violent aggression from pro-gay activists, which sent several to the hospital.
