Pendemo di Paris Tentang Pernikahan Sejenis di Prancis
Mass Paris Rally Against Gay Marriage in France
Editor : Heru S Winarno
Translator : Parulian Manalu
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Paris (B2B) - Ratusan ribu orang pada Minggu berunjuk rasa melalui jalan-jalan ibu kota Prancis Paris untuk memprotes rencana Presiden Francois Hollande melegalkan pernikahan gay dan adopsi pada Juni, kata laporan media.
Tiga pawai besar berkumpul di satu taman besar di samping Menara Eiffel - Champs de Mars.
Para demonstran, yang didukung oleh Gereja Katolik dan oposisi sayap kanan, mengatakan rencana pemerintah akan merusak salah satu dari kelompok bangunan penting masyarakat.
Penyelenggara pawai mengatakan, sekitar 800.000 pengunjuk rasa turun ke jalan, membawa plakat-plakat yang terbaca seperti "Kami tidak ingin hukum Anda, Francois."
Meskipun pemerintah sosialisnya menghadapi penolakan dari lebih 1.000 wali kota dan Gereja Katolik, masih menyetujui RUU yang berkaitan pada November 2012.
Menurut polisi, jumlah pengunjuk rasa adalah sekitar 340.000 orang.
Paris - Hundreds of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Paris over plans to give gay couples in France the right to marry and adopt children.
Three big marches converged on the Champs de Mars, a large park next to the Eiffel Tower.
France's Socialist government is planning to change the law this year.
But the demonstrators, backed by the Catholic Church and the right-wing opposition, argue it would undermine an essential building block of society.
The organisers put the number of marchers at 800,000, with demonstrators pouring into Paris by train and bus, carrying placards that read, "We don't want your law, Francois" and "Don't touch my civil code".
Although France allows civil unions between same-sex couples, Francois Hollande made a pledge to extend their rights part of his presidential campaign.
Police said the figure was closer to 340,000.
