Sunday, October 5, 2014

The “AKI for all” back on the streets – Les Echos

The "AKI for all" back on the streets – Les Echos

+ VIDEO Opponents of gay marriage gather again in Paris and Bordeaux, eight months after the last two processions had collected 100,000 people.

The “AKI for All” is back Sunday. Opponents of gay marriage gather again in Paris and Bordeaux (Gironde), eight months after the last two processions had collected 100,000 people according to police, in Paris and Lyon. Their new battle cry: Surrogacy (GPA), with the slogan “Human is not a commodity.” This week, Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, said that the GPA is “and will be banned in France.”

“It was obvious and we said: after marriage for all, that the LDCs, GPA, gender,” says a leaflet distributed to 1.6 million copies. “The GPA must be fought at all costs,” insists Ludovine de la Rochere, president of the movement born in 2012 against gay marriage. To Alberic Dumont, co-founder of the collective, “there is a double hypocritical rhetoric of the government” that “pushes fraud”: “He was opposed to the GPA in France but at the same time it allows the adjustment of children born to GPA abroad “

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In case, the government’s position that has not contested in the three months before it, the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights in June that forced France to recognize children born of a surrogate mother abroad.

Issues that too embarrassed to right

Like most tenors of the UMP, the MP Valérie Pécresse considers the JDD it is “not realistic” to repeal the law on gay marriage but it takes “very solid locks to prevent the PMA and the GPA.” Number of supporters of the right and extreme right are favorable to the ideas of the MPT and some elected along well seize the opportunity: A delegation of the National Front will join the procession in Paris, as well as several UMP as Henri Guaino or Hervé Mariton . “The mobilization must be strong Sunday,” tweeted Laurent Wauquiez.

A delegation of the National Front but also several members of the UMP, the presidential candidate of the party Herve Mariton, announced they would participate in the event.



Family policy in the crosshairs

Events also occur just after the announcement of some plane generalized to family benefits, including a division by three of the baby bonus after the second child. For the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, Andre Vingt-Trois, it is “a gradual dismantling of family policy.” The AKI and for all, it is a divine surprise. “I was really reacting our militants” slips Alberic Dumont.



Counter-demo

A few hundred people gathered Sunday in Paris to “celebrate the diversity of all families,” LGBT or not, a few hours before a new show of strength for all of the AKI. Facing Manif for All (MPT), which intends to “defend the family” after he tried to oppose gay marriage, the purpose of this gathering place of the Republic, “is to demonstrate and celebrate the diversity of all families in France, “according to William Bonnet, a member of” All Out “, the NGO behind the rally, which defends the rights of the homosexual community.

To Laurent Bellini, 45, came with his companion at the rally, “the concept of family as it will be defended this afternoon (via MPT) is exceeded the twenty-first century. Since the adoption of the Taubira law and the first gay marriage, there was no end of the world and no decline of humanity, “he observes. Protesters of AKI for all, he said, “advocate values ​​in their churches against which they will occur: love of neighbor, tolerance”

Bruno and Christopher. 40 years are the ones dads twin born six months in the United States of a surrogate mother. The refusal of surrogacy, including the prime minister said Friday that it will remain banned in France, is one of the pillars of the fight for all AKI.

” Attacks and about these protesters are hurtful: how our lifestyle he’s penalized? “Indignant and Christophe Bruno. “We are treated as sub-parents.”

Previous events

– November 17, 2012: for AKI All together 100,000 people against the Taubira law
– Jan. 13, 2013. Between 340,000 protesters (police) and 800,000 (organizers) marched in Paris against the bill and gather the Champ de Mars
– February 2. MEPs adopt Article 1 opening marriage to same sex couples. Tens of thousands of opposition manifested throughout France’s call for all Manif
– March 24. Between 300,000 (police) and 1.4 million (organizers) opponents demonstrate in Paris. Incidents erupt, there 98 arrests
– April 17. Second Reading in the House. Clashes near the Palais-Bourbon during a protest organized by the AKI for all
– Night of April 18 to 19. End of the second reading after a stormy night when members fail to come to blows. 2,900 (police) to 6,000 (organizers) opponents gather near the Assembly. About 80 were arrested after incidents
– April 21 . 45,000 (police) to 270,000 protesters anti-gay marriage (organizers) march in Paris to call for all Manif.
– May 5: for all AKI organizes rallies opponents of the law in several cities, including 15,000 (police) to 35,000 people (organizers) to Paris
. – May 26: 150,000 people according to police, one million according to the organizers, demonstrate in Paris three processions, to call for all Manif
– December 15. : Several thousand people (6000 to 30,000 depending on sources) parade in Versailles
– February 2, 2014. Between 100,000 and 540,000 people, according to sources and march in Paris Lyon without incident.

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