Editing Marcel Lefebvre (section)

=== Political positions ===
Political positions espoused by Lefebvre included the following:
* Condemnation of the 1789 [[French Revolution]] and what he called its "Masonic and anti-Catholic principles".<ref>{{harvnb|Lefebvre|1987|loc=[http://www.sspxasia.com/Documents/Archbishop-Lefebvre/OpenLetterToConfusedCatholics/Chapter-13.htm Chapter 13]}}</ref>
* Support for the "Catholic order" of the authoritarian French [[Vichy France|Vichy]] government (1940–1944) of Marshal [[Philippe Pétain]].<ref>Jeremy Rich, "Marcel Lefebvre in Gabon", in Kevin J. Callahan and Sarah Ann Curtis, eds., ''Views from the Margins: Creating Identities in Modern France'' (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2008), 62–63. {{ISBN|0803215592}}</ref>
* Support for the [[National Front (France)|National Front]] led by [[Jean-Marie Le Pen]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Routledge Companion to Fascism and the Far Right|last1=Davies|first1=Peter|last2=Lynch|first2=Derek|publisher=[[Routledge]]|year=2002|isbn=0-415-21494-7|location=London and New York|pages=221}}</ref>
* Opposition to Muslim immigration into Europe. In 1990, Lefebvre was convicted in a French court and sentenced to pay a fine of 5,000 francs when he stated in this connection that "it is your wives, your daughters, your children who will be kidnapped and dragged off to a certain kind of places {{sic}} as they exist in [[Casablanca]]".<ref>[http://koenraadelst.voiceofdharma.com/articles/misc/rushdie.html Afterword: The Rushdie Affair's Legacy] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930184713/http://koenraadelst.voiceofdharma.com/articles/misc/rushdie.html |date=30 September 2007 }}, Koenraad Elst</ref><ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/yVt0dnwZMCo Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20131109155755/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVt0dnwZMCo Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVt0dnwZMCo|title=Archbishop Marcel-François Lefebvre|last=2004noir|date=7 January 2008|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref>