{"id":4638,"date":"2013-05-28T07:09:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T07:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4638"},"modified":"2013-05-28T07:09:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T07:09:34","slug":"americans-warm-to-french-anti-gay-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4638","title":{"rendered":"Americans warm to French anti-gay protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_8_1_22_1369723783530_213\" class=\"first\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/antigayparis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4639\" title=\"antigayparis\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/antigayparis-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/antigayparis-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/antigayparis.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Although France officially legalized gay marriage last month, organizers of an anti-gay marriage &#8212; or &#8220;pro-family&#8221; &#8212; parade decided to go forward with a planned <span id=\"lw_1369585572527_3\" class=\"yshortcuts cs4-ndcor\">demonstration<\/span> Sunday &#8212; and hundreds of thousands turned out.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_8_1_22_1369723783530_211\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"lw_1369585572527_4\" class=\"yshortcuts cs4-ndcor\">Sandy Glass<\/span> from <span id=\"lw_1369585572527_2\" class=\"yshortcuts cs4-ndcor\">Naperville, Illinois<\/span>, was in Paris and witnessed the parade unexpectedly, telling TheBlaze she and her husband estimated more than 250,000 people were present.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_8_1_22_1369723783530_204\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It brought tears to our eyes,&#8221; Glass, a conservative, said in a phone interview.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We go to France a lot and thought it was another left wing protest,&#8221; she said later, recalling that last year they found themselves in the middle of a Socialist rally.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When they followed the noise and witnessed what she described as &#8220;pro-family&#8221; signs, Glass said she realized &#8220;oh, we&#8217;re not the only &#8216;crazy&#8217; ones,&#8221; explaining that it is &#8220;sometimes very difficult to be on the right in America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Associated Press reported there being about 5,000 police present for the demonstration, due to clashes that have occurred in other anti-gay marriage protests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Glass said the event was very well organized and even seemed to have its own security detail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Nobody bothered these people,&#8221; she said, noting that people on the street were giving thumbs up and people in balconies were cheering. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here are some photos from the event:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It was such a show of force that was pro something, not against something,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I think it was awesome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The plan of French protesters, according to Glass, is to vote out lawmakers with whom they hold opposition in 2014. &#8211; The Blaze<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although France officially legalized gay marriage last month, organizers of an anti-gay marriage &#8212; or &#8220;pro-family&#8221; &#8212; parade decided to go forward with a planned demonstration Sunday &#8212; and hundreds of thousands turned out. Sandy Glass from Naperville, Illinois, was in Paris and witnessed the parade unexpectedly, telling TheBlaze she and her husband estimated more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4638\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Americans warm to French anti-gay protests&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[2600,73,1004],"class_list":["post-4638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-anti-gay","tag-gay-marriage","tag-paris"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/antigayparis.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4641,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4638\/revisions\/4641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}