While America is rapidly advancing gay rights, France is working hard to disprove the old canard that Europe is more sophisticated and sexually progressive than America.

Over this last weekend, as many as half a million French people rallied in the streets to protest gay rights. Here is an irreverent take on the event at Jezebel.com.

Maybe someday the French can learn to be as sexually permissive and accepting as Utah.

(AP Photo/Thibaut Camus)

(AP Photo/Thibaut Camus)