By Tom Heneghan, ReutersPARIS - Several hundred thousand people are expected to march through Paris on Sunday against the planned legalization of same-intercourse marriage in the first mass protest against the unpopular President Francois Hollande.
Follow @NBCNewsUS (https://twitter.com/NBCNewsUS) Strongly backed by the Catholic hierarchy, lay activists have mobilized a hybrid coalition of church-going families, political conservatives, Muslims, evangelicals and even homointercourseuals opposed to gay marriage for the show of force.
So many are expected to converge on Paris from around France that police had organizers split it into three separate columns starting from different points around the city and meeting in the Champ de Mars park at the Eiffel Tower.
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