The leader of the French religious right, Frigide Barjot, said today
that 18 year old pro-gay college student Clément Méric would not have
been killed in a vicious attack by right wing skinheads had France not recently legalized gay marriage.
Comedienne Frigide Barjot (who works under a pseudonym that’s
apparently a sexual pun on the name of the French actress, Brigitte
Bardot), is the leader of France’s anti-gay right, that includes the
Catholic church and the lead conservative party in France, the UMP (for
lack of a better comparison, France’s Republican party).
Unlike America, France is not a very religious country. But like
America, France’s right-wing parties have latched on to legislative
gay-bashing as a means of unifying the right at the ballot box. Sadly,
in response to the right’s hysteria-building over gay marriage, anti-gay violence – and overall terror threats against the government – have increased of late.
Things have gotten so bad in the French right that Barjot herself
refused to attend the latest official anti-gay protest, for fear of the
extremists that are attempting to take over her movement.
Today we learned
that 18 year old Clément Méric, a pro-gay college student attending the
prestigious Sciences Po in Paris, succumbed to injuries recently
sustained at the hands of three skinheads at a Paris train station.
(Violent crimes are relatively uncommon in France, as compared to the
US, though that’s been changing of late.)
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