La Manif pour tous explained

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
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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
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Methods:Protests, reports, policy proposals
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Leader Title:President
Leader Name:Ludovine de La Rochère
Leader Title2:Vice-president
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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.

Founding and name

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.

Goals and methods

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.

Transformation into political party

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]

Expansion in Europe

French: La Manif pour Tous inspired the creation of branches of the French organization or similar, unaffiliated groups in other European countries:

Criticism

French: La Manif pour tous has been criticized as homophobic and using children to make a political point.[21]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Derrière la grande illusion de la 'Manif pour tous'. Le Monde. 21 March 2013.
  2. Web site: fr . Geoffroy . Clavel . Mariage Gay et Violences: la Manif Pour Tous débordée. Comment en est on arrivé là . Huffington Post. 18 May 2013 . 1 May 2020.
  3. Web site: fr . La 'manif pour tous' gagne le pari de la mobilisation . Le Figaro . 17 November 2012 . 21 January 2021.
  4. Web site: fr . Sylvain . Mouillard . 'Un papa, une maman', deux ans de slogans de la Manif pour tous . Libération.fr . 3 October 2014 . 21 January 2021.
  5. Jayson . Harsin . Post-Truth Populism: The French Anti-Gender Theory Movement and Cross-Cultural Similarities . Communication, Culture and Critique. 11. 1. 1 March 2018. 1753-9129 . 1753-9137--> . 10.1093/ccc/tcx017 . 23 August 2020 . 35–52.
  6. Web site: L'extrême droite au premier rang de la Manif pour tous ce dimanche . 20minutes.fr . 2 October 2014. .
  7. Web site: fr . La Manif pour Tous est apolitique . La Manif pour Tous . La Manif pour Tous . La Manif pur tous.fr . 15 July 2014 . 28 April 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150428072356/http://www.lamanifpourtous.fr/fr/toutes-les-actualites/385-la-manif-pour-tous-est-apolitique . dead . .
  8. Web site: . fr . La Manif pour tous devient un parti politique . 24 April 2015 . 26 September 2019.
  9. Web site: Pourquoi la manif pour tous n'est jamais devenue un parti politique . huffingtonpost . 16 October 2016. .
  10. Web site: Ball . Sam . Protesters take to streets over French govt's 'familyphobia' . . 5 October 2014 . 29 August 2021.
  11. Web site: 15 July 2014 . fr . La Manif pour Tous . La Manif pour Tous est apolitique . La Mmanif Pour Tous. .
  12. 24 April 2015 . . La Manif pour tous devient un parti politique .
  13. 24 April 2015 . Geoffroy . Clavel . . La Manif pour tous devient un parti politique mais pas "pour présenter des candidats" . .
  14. 2023-04-19 . 2023-03-27 . 0242-6056 . fr-FR . La Croix . La Manif pour tous devient le Syndicat de la famille .
  15. Web site: 2024-01-28 . 2023-04-22 . Le Monde.fr . Dix ans du mariage pour tous : qu’est devenue la génération d’activistes née de l’opposition à la loi ? .
  16. 29 January 2014 . 14 July 2013 . Hélène . fr . Despic-Popovic . . La Manif pour tous fait des émules chez les conservateurs croates .
  17. Web site: 2 March 2014 . Katia Bitsch . 27 November 2013 . fr . La Manif Pour Tous fait des émules jusqu'en Croatie. Vice Batarelo reconnaît s'être inspiré de la mobilisation française pour créer son collectif Au nom de la famille. . Un référendum anti mariage gay en Croatie . Le Mouv'.fr.
  18. Web site: 29 January 2014 . 26 July 2013 . Italie : La Manif pour tous s'exporte . Le Figaro.fr.
  19. Web site: 2 March 2014 . Thibaut Pézerat . 26 July 2013 . La manif pour tous créé une branche italienne et envoie ses militants manifester à Rome . Le Lab (Europe 1.fr).
  20. News: Putin's party unveils Russian 'straight pride' flag. Damien. Sharkov. Newsweek. 8 July 2015.
  21. News: fr . Frigide Barjot regrette l'homophobie engendrée par les Manif pour tous . L'Express . 26 August 2014 . 24 September 2019.