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La Manif anti-gay protesters on their way to Capital Plaza.French President François Hollande ran on a campaign of promising to legalize gay marriage. Currently in France there is a form of civil union that does not permit adoption and is essentially worthless. A gay marriage bill came up in the National Assembly in October and will be voted on soon. Sensing that the bill will easily pass, La Manif and VITA Alliance are staging their mass protests and demanding that the issue be put to a nationwide referendum.



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A pro-gay-marriage protester doing a striptease in front of the police.Construction barriers were ripped up in an attempt to cage the police and La Manif. The police started shooting rubber bullets. A massive crowd of pro-gay protesters ran through the street, dodging rubber bullets and tear gas canisters. One brave man grabbed a hose from a construction site and blasted the police with water.

