MEXICO CITY, 24 Sep. 16 / 5:18 pm (CNA) .- From noon on Saturday 24 September, more than 400 thousand people from across the country participated in the massive March for the Family held in Mexico City .

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Amid a festive atmosphere and dressed in white, the crowd marched from the National Audience to the Angel of Independence, where attendees heard an important manifesto by the family of 10 points.

Among the main orders of the National Front for the Family, organizer of the march, are the protection of the family constituted on the marriage of a man and a woman, the right of parents to educate their children according to their convictions, and rejection of the imposition of gender ideology by the government.

We were in total just over three hours of a joyful demonstration, in which no lack of known "cheers" as addressed to President Enrique Peña Nieto, who told him, "chairman, president, we are not one, we are 10 tell us well. "

Another group of participants sang on their part "to you who are watching, we are inviting you also for your family, are supporting".

The hundreds of thousands of attendees were also able to hear a few words of two participating families, which stressed the importance of society and the state to ensure the protection and promotion of the family institution.

Speaking to the press, Consuelo Mendoza, of the National Union of Parents, which is part of the Front organizer of the march, participants noted that "we want a better Mexico where authorities well represent the real interests of Mexicans."

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On its position on the gay and lesbian group, the leader said that "I have always spoken with great respect for their dignity, for the life choices and preferences. This does not exclude them as Mexicans. What we ask is respect for the natural family ".

"The government and citizens is experiencing an awakening. Mexico has always distinguished it by the impressive value for the family (...) We showed the 10 September and return to show now, "he added.

"It will depart as often as necessary to the streets," he said then.

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For his part, Juan Dabdoub Giacoman, President of the Mexican Council for the Family, which also includes the Front, which organized the march, recalled that in February this year presented an initiative in favor of the family with more than 200 thousand signatures " he cavalierly ignored ".

"Then the president (Peña Nieto), contrary to what the public is asking, does something different and this stunning reaction is" with the March for the Family.

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He further claimed that the institution that ensures non-discrimination in Mexico, the Conapred, "seems an appendage of the gay community" as it is "concentrated in it and not turn to see families".

"We are ready to talk with ministers (Supreme Court) openly," Dabdoub said, explaining that are also open to dialogue with the gay community: "if we approach, we can find ways to protect what they ask for and protect families, but we see this ideology invaded with attempts to impose the president. "

On the other hand, Fernando Guzman Perez Pelaez, Vice President Confamilia, said that Peña Nieto "was wrong with his initiative, he did it for his personal convictions, without consulting the Mexican people."

"Let the doors Pinos (the presidential residence) is open to the front may pose to President arguments and our children are not educated in gender ideology" he asked.

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Guzman explained that "no discrimination when it is said that marriage is between a man and a woman. The Strasbourg Court, the most important of human rights in the world, has highlighted in its judgments. "

The pro-family leader also said that this march attended by people from different parts of Mexico and Chihuahua, Merida, Zamora, Mazatlan, Jalisco, Sonora, among many others, and all have been "happy Mexicans who have participated peacefully".

CNA