Paris - march against gay marriage

There were hundreds of thousands march against gay marriage in Paris. I watched the video, and I would have to say I'm a bit stunned. All these people, marching against something as innocuous as two gay people who love each other wanting marriage equality with the rest of the population? They try to bash down police barricades and all, unbelievable.

 

Usually I'm very sympathetic to people getting tear-gassed by police. This time however I have mixed emotions about it. Trying to break down a police barricade isn't the sort of thing you do if you don't want to be tear-gassed FFS. There will inevitably be stray tear-gas that gets people who didn't ask for it in such a scenario. The bit at the end when the protesters were bashing on police barricades, WTF did they think was going to happen? Why are they so bloody angry? Aren't there better things to protest about than that?

Anyway the marriage bill looks like it's going to pass the French senate. My words to all those protesters, how does it feel to be in a minority?

 Riot police fought back crowds who pushed their way on to the Champs Elysées in Paris as part of a protest against a draft law allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt children.

Hundreds of thousands of people – conservative activists, children, retirees, priests, many bussed in from the French provinces – converged on the capital on Sunday in a last-ditch attempt to stop the bill.

The lower house of France's parliament approved the "marriage for everyone" bill last month with a large majority, and it now faces a vote in the senate next month. Both houses are dominated by President François Hollande's Socialist party and its allies. more

"Bussed in"? So how many were from rent a crowd then?