Protests In France Get Violent After Marriage Equality Passes
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Marriage equality may have passed in France yesterday, but anti-gay protests seem to still be going strong, with over 50 people arrested as "stones, bottles and iron bars" were thrown at police, this according to Gay Star News.
12 were arrested in Paris, where the police were forced to fire tear gas at protesters, and 44 in Lyon after a similar clash.
"If some people think that it’s over, we’ll show them that it is not finished," anti-gay leader Frigide Barjot told the crowd in Paris, after the marriage equality bill officially passed.
These types of incidents have become more and more common in the normally civilized France throughout the past few months. Just this past week, the staff of a gay bar was attacked, the French activist group Les Hommen protested in Paris and a fistfight erupted in Parliament when some right wing members felt they had been insulted.
The Marriage for All bill is set to be signed into law by President François Hollande in the coming weeks, with the first same-sex marriages set to take place in June.
And, hopefully, these protests will finally die down.
