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One high-profile U.S. clothes retailer is making its position on same-sex wedding understood throughout the pond.

Us Apparel will apparently be offering 10, 000 of its preferred "Legalize Gay" T-shirts in its shops and on the roads of Paris in support of France's embattled marriage equivalence costs. The T-shirts had been originally created in 2008 in an effort to combat Prop 8, California's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage.

"In America the building blocks of your civil rights tend to be written as life, liberty, as well as the pursuit of glee - in France it's freedom, equivalence, fraternity, " Dov Charney, president and CEO of United states Apparel, is quoted as saying in a press release. "Our organization believes that those creeds by our founding dads join united states in an obligation to fight for freedom and equity. Both the French and American individuals have a shared custom of pursuit of justice and then we tend to be proud to make use of our business's resources and provide our help for this essential battle."

Marriage equality has been doing the French headlines usually lately. Though French President Francois Hollande has actually expressed his help both for relationship equivalence and use liberties for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) couples during his promotion, the time and effort has-been met with opposition among some inside traditionally Catholic nation.

As the Associated Press reported final thirty days, many vocal opposition to same-sex wedding is coming from country's rural areas, in which some lawmakers being campaigning for a "conscience clause, " which may enable mayors the right to deny same-sex couples the ability to wed.

Those types of to denounce the resistance ended up being the country's former first woman. "i am rather in favor because We have countless friends –- both women and men –- that are in this circumstance and I see nothing unstable or perverse in families with gay parents, " Carla Bruni is quoted as saying, notwithstanding the fact that the woman conservative husband Nicolas Sarkozy was a longstanding adversary of homosexual marriage.