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Paris, France, Nov 20, 2012 \/ 12:02 pm (CNA<\/a>).- Nearly 250,000 people across France took to the streets on Nov. 17 to voice their support for marriage against ongoing efforts by political leaders to legalize same-sex unions.<\/p>\n

\tSupporters held marches in Paris, Toulouse, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Rennes, Metz, Dijon and Bordeaux, to protest proposals by French President Francois Hollande to make same-sex unions equal to marriage.<\/p>\n

\tThe thousands of protestors also voice disagreement with measures to replace \u201cfather\u201d and \u201cmother\u201d on official birth certificates with \u201cparent A\u201d and \u201cparent B.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tMany carried banners with slogans such as, \u201cNothing better for a child than mom and dad,\u201d \u201cNo to parent A and B: father and mother are equal and complementary,\u201d and \u201cChildren are born with a right to father and mother.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tProtestors in Lyon were joined by Cardinal Philippe Barbarin and the rector of the Muslim Mosque of Lyon, Kamel Kabtane, who said, \u201cWe share the same fundamental values and we should defend them together.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cGay marriage\u201d supporters held their own counter protest in Lyon, which became violent and led to the arrest of 50 by police. Some also marched semi-naked, donning religious veils with anti-Catholic slogans painted on their bodies.<\/p>\n

\tDuring his campaign, President Francois Hollande promised to support \u201csame-sex marriage,\u201d and on Nov. 7 he sent a proposal to his cabinet members to legalize the practice.<\/p>\n

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Paris, France, Nov 20, 2012 \/ 12:02 pm (CNA).- Nearly 250,000 people across France took to the streets on Nov. 17 to voice their support for marriage against ongoing efforts by political leaders to legalize same-sex unions.<\/p>\n

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