Published time: May 28, 2013 04:21
Francois Hollande didn’t expect such vast public outcry when he signed the same-sex marriage law in order to satisfy the small lobby, which sponsored his campaign for French presidency, Bruno Vercken from La Manif Pour Tous movement told RT.
Central Paris has witnessed violence on its streets over the
weekend, a mass rally in protest at laws allowing same-sex marriage
turned into clashes.
Police cracked down on far-right activists who had joined the
demonstration, arresting 350 people for refusing to disperse or
occupying private property.
Bruno Vercken, regional coordinator of the anti-gay marriage
movement that took part in protests on Sunday, says that so many
Frenchmen are speaking out against the same-sex marriage and
adoption law because it violates the rights of the
children.
RT: Did the police go too far in the way they dealt
with your protest?
Bruno Vercken: Yes, indeed. If you look at the numbers
since last November several millions of people have gone into
street to protest and you won’t be able to provide any picture nor
any film of any broken glass, any burned car, and any violence
during the protests themselves. At the same time, many people have
been arrested. Several hundred people have been arrested by the
police just because they were wearing suits with this logo there
[shows the logo of the Anti-Gay Marriage Movement]. No longer than
last Saturday, people were arrested in Paris because there were two
of them walking together. And, at the same time, many people and no
later than two weeks ago when Paris Saint-Germain celebrated this
title in the soccer league in France, many people ruined some shops
and they were not arrested.
RT: What are the reasons for the police behaving in
this manner towards the same-sex marriage protestors?
BV: The government is extremely
surprised and annoyed by the breadth and the length, the duration
of the movement. Francois Hollande had not anticipated that
allowing same-sex marriage and adoption would create such a concern
about so many people in France. He did this promise to satisfy a
small lobby, particularly active lobby, who financed his
presidential campaign. He didn’t anticipate that same-sex marriage
was meaning in France adoption and plenary adoption — which
immediately triggers the risk of losing the biological link between
the kid and his parents. And in France this is very unique. And
people are protesting against that to defend the right of
children.
RT: Was this all about your objection to gay-marriage,
or was it hijacked by groups with other agendas?
BV: Really not, I’m personally a member of a
political party in France, and the takeover of this movement by any
political party is clearly not at stake. Many of these people are,
by the way, from left or from right so it transcends the classical
left-right boundaries.
RT: France is now the ninth European country to
legalise gay marriage. Why can’t you move with the times?
BV: You could put nine ladies together you wouldn’t be
able to create a baby even in one month. And I think people protest
here because they… It’s not a matter of being modern, going along
with times. It’s really against, at one point in time, to say:
Who’s at stake there? Have we thought, have we considered the right
of the weakest person there – who’s the kid? And, you know, when a
kid has lost his parents, probably, his dearest wish is to be
adopted by a man and a woman. You, me are the sons of a man and a
woman and in this law there’s a deep lie — imbedded in the law — is
to make people believe in the future that they can be born from two
men or two women. And this is extremely dangerous and, by the way,
we’ll open soon the rights to medically adopted procreation and
surrogate mothers, which people in France are extremely worried
about and are extremely against.
This article originally appeared on: RT