Some 350,000 (according to police) and 800,000 (according to organisers) opponents of a bill to extend marriage and adoption rights to homosexual couples took part in a Paris demonstration to demand that the text be withdrawn. Organised by Catholic associations and backed by part of France’s conservative opposition, it was one of the largest protests in to take place in France in the last 30 years. The government has insisted that the bill will not be withdrawn.
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