{"id":5476,"date":"2013-03-08T16:36:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T16:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=5476"},"modified":"2013-03-12T09:00:03","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T09:00:03","slug":"2013mar08marr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/2013mar08marr\/","title":{"rendered":"French initiate pro-marriage witness"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pro-marriage protestors in Paris in January (Reuters)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A planned witness to support marriage on Palm Sunday from 2pm to 5pm has been initiated by a group of French ex-patriates, Christian Voice has learned.<\/p>\n

Christian UK-based campaigning groups have been slow to organise anything, so the French, flushed with the success of the ‘manifestation’ in Paris in January, have decided to organise a demonstration in Trafalgar Square on Palm Sunday,\u00a0Sunday 24th March, 2013.<\/p>\n

What is little known is that this will be their second pro-marriage London witness. \u00a0Canon Chris Sugden of Anglican Mainstream explains:<\/p>\n

‘You may remember that in January around a million people –\u00a0including many thousands of students and young people – demonstrated\u00a0on the streets of Paris against their government’s proposals to\u00a0redefine traditional marriage to include same sex couples. Hundreds of\u00a0the demonstrators were UK-based French residents who boarded the\u00a0Eurostar to Paris to join their compatriots.<\/p>\n

‘What is less well known is that on the same day a further 600 French\u00a0residents refrained from travelling to Paris but demonstrated instead\u00a0outside the French Embassy in west London.<\/p>\n

‘The UK-based protesters have invited other non-French UK residents to\u00a0join them in Trafalgar Square, and to make this a joint protest\u00a0against both the UK and the French governments’ plans to redefine\u00a0marriage.<\/p>\n

‘We think this is a great idea and, along with those from other UK\u00a0organisations, Anglican Mainstream fully supports it and plans to be\u00a0there.”<\/p>\n

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