(Reuters) - Plans
by France's Socialist government to legalize same-sex marriage are
proving harder to enact than first thought after faith leaders and
conservatives mobilized against it even as left-wing deputies try to
expand it.
With a solid majority it won
last spring, the government originally only planned short parliamentary
hearings and a debate early next year before voting on one of President
Francois Hollande's most divisive campaign promises and something he has
framed as a trademark reform.
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