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(108,903 posts) Sat Nov 10, 2012, 08:53 AM Nov 2012

Mayor backs down from gay wedding after threats{france}

http://www.france24.com/en/20121109-france-mayor-backs-down-gay-marriage-threats-legalise-adoption-duhem-hantay

The mayor of a small town in northern France has cancelled her plans to preside over the civil marriage of two women after receiving “violent and threatening” messages.

he mayor of a small town in northern France has cancelled a same-sex marriage ceremony, which she had agreed to preside over on November 10, after receiving a torrent of “violent” threats.

“Given the numerous violent and threatening reactions, I currently cannot take the risk of darkening this day,” Desirée Duhem, the mayor of Hantay, said in a press release sent to FRANCE 24.

A week earlier, Duhem, a member of France’s Socialist Party, caught the attention of the French media by announcing she would perform a civil marriage between two women that would have likely been invalidated by authorities.