Huge Paris crowds set to protest gay marriage

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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  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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