La Manif pour tous
La Manif pour tous (LMPT) is a political organization in France which is responsible for most of the large demonstrations and actions in opposition to laws enabling same-sex marriage (better known as mariage pour tous—Marriage for all) and adoption by same-sex couples in France.
La Manif pour tous | |
| Named after | Mariage pour tous |
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| Formation | November 2, 2012 |
| Founder | Frigide Barjot, Albéric Dumont, Ludovine de La Rochère |
| Founded at | Paris |
| Type | Nonprofit |
| Purpose | Promotion of traditional marriage, nuclear family. Opposition to same-sex marriage, adoption, and "gender ideology". |
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Region served | Europe |
| Methods | Protests, reports, policy proposals |
President | Ludovine de La Rochère |
Vice-president | Albéric Dumont |
| Website | www |
Since the law was enacted in May 2013, the group's demands have remained the same: 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). The movement supports father-mother-child filiation and opposes "gender ideology" (successively named théorie du gender, théorie du genre and 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, and supported in its calls for public demonstrations by many members of the right wing and the far-right in France, the group identified itself as apolitical and non-denominational before it became a political party itself in April 2015. Internal divisions resulted in the successive departures of its founders Béatrice Bourges, Frigide Barjot, and Xavier Bongibault.