Italian gays 'marry', a stone's throw from Vatican

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22 May 2005

ROME: Italian gay couples “married” symbolically in central Rome on Saturday, a short walk from the Vatican that adamantly opposes such unions, in a bid to relax Italian laws.

Curious shoppers looked on as the ceremonies, celebrated by gay-rights activists and sympathetic town councillors, took place against a backdrop of placards reading “Let’s free love from religious phobias”.

Italy, where the Vatican has a powerful influence on politics, is considered years away from the kind of law recently presented in Spain allowing homosexuals to marry.

But the country’s gay and lesbian associations are lobbying for parliament to give same-sex unions legal status in areas such as pensions, taxes and competitions for state-sector jobs.

“It’s our mother of all battles,” said Franco Grillini of the gay rights group Arcigay. . . .
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Excuse me while I hurl. Why these perverts think that shoving their perversion in our face will help their cause is beyond me. Yes certainly the right to engage in state sanctioned sodomy seems like a real hill worth dying on.

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The funny thing is that, while Italians are generally a tolerant people, they are quite puzzled by what we call “political correctness” & the corresponding publicity of every self-described special interest group out there. In recent years, there have been incidents of various minority groups in Italy, especially Muslims, attempting to push acceptance onto the nation and to the best of my knowledge, none were successful. I was talking about this just a few days ago to one of my Italian friends, and she said that they are getting to the point where they are sick of being pushed to accept things that they feel are contrary to Italian life and culture. The European Union has been responsible for a lot of this as far as Italians are concerned, and believe me, they have become quite hostile to the EU and anything connected with it because it has just about destroyed Italy. Now that member nations like Spain are legalizing homosexual marriage, it will be very interesting to see what the EU tries to do about that.
 
…just curious? …are you guys having problems with the “sin” or the “sinners”… aren’t we supposed to love one and hate the other…:whistle:
 
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…just curious? …are you guys having problems with the “sin” or the “sinners”… aren’t we supposed to love one and hate the other…:whistle:
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The sin of wanting state sanctioned sodomy is what I hate. The determination to shove this perversion in our face is what I hate. The disrespect to the Church and the Pope is what I hate. The people involved, despite their misguided ideas, are children of God. Loving the PERSON does not mean we love their every action, particularly when it is in opposition of what makes us truly human. Pray for them.
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