NEWS: La Manif Pour Tous London Protest

<encoded><p>La Manif Pour Tous, the French anti same sex marriage and anti adoption for gay couples, organisation is taking its protests to the streets of other European cities including our very own Trafalgar Square.</p> <p>Newsdesk | 24th March 2013</p> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://www.thegayuk.com/communities/8/004/009/928/388/images/4585106442.jpg" width="421" height="196" alt="La Manif Pour Tous Paris protest" title="La Manif Pour Tous Paris protest"/></p> <p></p> <p>After the reported 340,000 protesters who turned up last month in Paris to march against same sex marriage, the French organisers have booked out Trafalgar Square for a UK protest, again expecting to bring in thousands of supporters. </p> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://www.thegayuk.com/communities/8/004/009/928/388/images/4589444253.jpg" width="352" height="288" alt="Trafalgar Sq. 2:15PM Trafalgar Square 24th March 2013 from camvista.com" title="Trafalgar Sq. 2:15PM Trafalgar Square 24th March 2013 from camvista.com"/></p> <p></p> <p>However it could be the great British weather or the fact that most UK citizens support same sex marriage, as the live web cam shows, it's quite a poor turn out and not quite the scenes of Paris last month. </p> <p></p> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://www.thegayuk.com/communities/8/004/009/928/388/images/4589449912.jpg" width="380" height="285" alt="TGUK Team: Trafalgar Square " title="TGUK Team: Trafalgar Square "/></p> <p></p> <p>The organisers state that they have 3 purposes to their demonstrations:</p> <p></p> <p>- First, because defending children rights is not a French or an English matter, but a global matter </p> <p>- Secondly, because we share the same values around marriage and family; we need to be united</p> <p>- Finally, because it's obviously a way to send a message to the UK government, even if the demonstation [sic] is initiated by the French.</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p> </p></encoded>