| La Manif pour tous | |
| Native Name: | La Manif pour tous |
| Native Name Lang: | fr |
| Named After: | French: Mariage pour tous |
| Founder: | Frigide Barjot, Albéric Dumont, Ludovine de La Rochère |
| Founding Location: | Paris |
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| Type: | Nonprofit organization |
| Vat Id: | (for European organizations) --> |
| Purpose: | Promotion of traditional marriage and nuclear family. Opposition to same-sex marriage, adoption, and "gender ideology". |
| Location Country: | France, Finland, Italy, Germany |
| Region Served: | Europe |
| Product: | --> |
| Methods: | Protests, reports, policy proposals |
| Field: | --> |
| Languages: | --> |
| Owners: | --> |
| Leader Title: | President |
| Leader Name: | Ludovine de La Rochère |
| Leader Title2: | Vice-president |
| Publication: | --> |
| Parent Organisation: | --> |
| Website: | (in French) |
| Former Name: | --> |
The French: Syndicat de la famille, better known under its original name of French: La Manif pour tous (LMPT), is a nonprofit organization and political movement based in France[1] which is responsible for most of the anti-gender and anti-LGBT demonstrations and actions that took place between 2012 and 2013, in opposition to the legalization of same-sex marriage in France (better known as French: mariage pour tous - "marriage for all"), as well as against the adoption of children by same-sex couples in France.[2]
Since the law was enacted in May 2013, the organization's demands have remained the same:[3] opposition to marriage and adoption by same-sex couples, to assisted reproductive technology in the absence of a father for the child, and to all forms of gestational surrogacy (including for male-female couples).[4] The movement supports father-mother-child filiation and opposes "gender ideology"[5] (successively named French: théorie du gender, French: théorie du genre and French: idéologie du genre in French).
Described by Le Monde as bringing together numerous organizations, of which the main ones are almost all religious and mainly linked to Catholicism,[1] and supported in its calls for public demonstrations by many members of the right wing and the far-right in France,[6] the group identified itself as apolitical and non-denominational[7] before it became a political party itself in April 2015.[8] [9] Internal divisions resulted in the successive departures of its founders Béatrice Bourges, Frigide Barjot, and Xavier Bongibault.
The name La Manif pour tous means "Protest for all" and was named after the French expression French: Le mariage pour tous ("marriage for all") which was the popular term used in France to promote same sex marriage, and also to refer to the Civil solidarity pact (PaCS), the 1999 French law permitting civil union between same-sex partners.[10] The organization formally changed its name in 2023.
Some of the objectives of French: La Manif pour tous include:
An organized group called for a boycott in 2014 involving pulling children from schools one day a month to protest against the alleged anti-family actions of the government.
Surrogacy is currently illegal in France for everyone; In vitro fertilization and other birth-assistive technology is available, but only to heterosexual couples. The government says it has no plans to change the situation, and Prime Minister Manuel Valls declared his opposition to surrogacy in all forms. Regarding "gender theory" or sex education in pre-schools the government says they are false rumors created on purpose by conservatives with ties to far-right groups.
After having long presented itself as an "apolitical organization",[11] fr |La Manif Pour Tous officially transformed itself into a political party on . However, they denied any intention of fielding candidates in elections, and described their change in status as simply a "technical decision". According to analysts, the change was actually motivated by financial considerations, as donors to political groups automatically benefit from substantial tax deductions.[12] [13]
In March 2023, the organization changed its name to French: Syndicat de la famille . Ludovine de La Rochère shared the presidency with Albéric Dumont, former general coordinator of French: La Manif pour tous, and whose private security company, Ultreïa, was a service provider to right-wing French presidential candidate Éric Zemmour's campaign.[14] [15]
French: La Manif pour Tous inspired the creation of branches of the French organization or similar, unaffiliated groups in other European countries:
French: La Manif pour tous has been criticized as homophobic and using children to make a political point.[21]