24.000 demonstrators according to police, 200.000 according to Manif Pour Tous
GAYLES.TV.- As is the tradition in all mass demonstrations, the figures are very different, but sufficiently alarming. According Manuf Pour Tous, organizers of the march held in Paris last Saturday October 16, were 200.000 the protesters who protested gay marriage in France. For the police the figure is reduced to 24.000. They are still too many.
This group Católico already managed to mobilize thousands of people in 2012 and 2013 against the law of «Marriage For Everyone»Approved on May 17th 2013, also known as «Taubira Law«, Since one of its promoters was the Minister of Justice Christiane Taubira. The French flag with the silhouette of a family formed by a man, a woman and two children is the emblem of this organization, which also has a pink and a blue version.
Demonstrators demand repeal of the law and defend the traditional family, in addition to protesting against gestational surrogacy, surrogacy and procreation assisted to lesbian coupless (both banned in France). Manuf Pour Tous is afraid that the law of homosexual marriage is only a first step to legalize such practices.
El grupo Femen has taken advantage to make visible its fight in this march and six militant feminists they have protested with their chests uncovered before being rebuked and insulted by Catholic protesters.
Sources: El Mundo, Le Monde, The Huffington Post
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