"As long as we rule this country adoptions are not possible for individuals and gay couples." These are the words of President Berlusconi on Saturday. Words that weigh once again, the lives of millions of homosexuals, gays and lesbians who live their daily requirement of couples, like all other citizens who pay taxes and rightly demand respect, especially from the state.
The following statements by the Premier, as it happens, the words of Msgr. Paul Rigon last week. "You have to take small," says Rigon (a slogan very scary), believes that homosexuality can be cured if caught in time, through appropriate psychiatric treatment. In disregard of the studies and personal experience of millions of people around the world, which says just the opposite.
Across the Atlantic, however, things are different. On the contrary, in fact. President Obama has in fact ordered, with a directive addressed to the offices of federal prosecutors, to stop defending the law against same-sex marriages (Defense of Marriage Act, 1996), as unconstitutional.
This move is part of a policy of gradual recognition of the rights of persons and gay and lesbian couples: Before the abolition by Congress of the Do not Ask, Do not Tell, the policy of discrimination in the armed forces, now claim unconstitutionality of the law on defense of marriage. Something is changing, it is clear.
The significant element is that the Republican Party there were gasps of criticism. Perhaps it is the case that everyone agrees that we must put an end to policies that discriminate against gay people and the Congress - the entire Congress! - Are realizing that the time has come for change.
Since we did not. You do not change one iota. The fight against homophobia is not on the political agenda of the government. A law on civil unions even decent. A change in the law on adoption for singles, either. And imagine. Never mind that the Constitutional Court has warned the European Parliament to intervene to ensure the right of gay and lesbian couples live their status under the umbrella of an express legislative recognition.
No matter that the Supreme Court has said it would be now, also for our country, to extend the adoption even for singles. Our government and our Parliament to remain deaf to the calls of our judges. On the contrary, the courts, Congress listens to them, and how. He heard, in fact, one federal court has declared unconstitutional the Do not Ask, Do not Tell, and decided to intervene.
The goal? Prevent millions of people continue to suffer from these distortions of the principle of equality as a result of which, by the mere fact of being attracted to someone of the same sex (certainly not characteristic pathological or illegal), are considered less equal than others.
He listened to the many requests for the repeal of the law in defense of marriage, made by several parties. He listened, then, the cries of many of those excluded, invisible, ignored or neglected. Because, as written by Christopher Isherwood in his A Single Man, "we still believe that the best way to get out of the way something is to ignore it, until it disappears." Even for gay people is this: pretend that there are, continues to deny their fundamental rights (those that everyone else has!) And will disappear from the scene.
I think frankly that we have reached the limit. It's about time that all gays and lesbians Italian make their voices heard. Dear Prime Minister Berlusconi, the invitation to Bunga Bunga who addressed the public on Saturday rejected because it is not acceptable. And I assure you that all began to speak with the voice of citizens who claim their rights.
That the slogan of all who are routinely discriminated against, humiliated, insulted and abused by this policy, poor soul, and that does not listen, so dull, and "no rights without votes." 
The following statements by the Premier, as it happens, the words of Msgr. Paul Rigon last week. "You have to take small," says Rigon (a slogan very scary), believes that homosexuality can be cured if caught in time, through appropriate psychiatric treatment. In disregard of the studies and personal experience of millions of people around the world, which says just the opposite.
Across the Atlantic, however, things are different. On the contrary, in fact. President Obama has in fact ordered, with a directive addressed to the offices of federal prosecutors, to stop defending the law against same-sex marriages (Defense of Marriage Act, 1996), as unconstitutional.
This move is part of a policy of gradual recognition of the rights of persons and gay and lesbian couples: Before the abolition by Congress of the Do not Ask, Do not Tell, the policy of discrimination in the armed forces, now claim unconstitutionality of the law on defense of marriage. Something is changing, it is clear.
The significant element is that the Republican Party there were gasps of criticism. Perhaps it is the case that everyone agrees that we must put an end to policies that discriminate against gay people and the Congress - the entire Congress! - Are realizing that the time has come for change.
Since we did not. You do not change one iota. The fight against homophobia is not on the political agenda of the government. A law on civil unions even decent. A change in the law on adoption for singles, either. And imagine. Never mind that the Constitutional Court has warned the European Parliament to intervene to ensure the right of gay and lesbian couples live their status under the umbrella of an express legislative recognition.
No matter that the Supreme Court has said it would be now, also for our country, to extend the adoption even for singles. Our government and our Parliament to remain deaf to the calls of our judges. On the contrary, the courts, Congress listens to them, and how. He heard, in fact, one federal court has declared unconstitutional the Do not Ask, Do not Tell, and decided to intervene.
The goal? Prevent millions of people continue to suffer from these distortions of the principle of equality as a result of which, by the mere fact of being attracted to someone of the same sex (certainly not characteristic pathological or illegal), are considered less equal than others.
He listened to the many requests for the repeal of the law in defense of marriage, made by several parties. He listened, then, the cries of many of those excluded, invisible, ignored or neglected. Because, as written by Christopher Isherwood in his A Single Man, "we still believe that the best way to get out of the way something is to ignore it, until it disappears." Even for gay people is this: pretend that there are, continues to deny their fundamental rights (those that everyone else has!) And will disappear from the scene.
I think frankly that we have reached the limit. It's about time that all gays and lesbians Italian make their voices heard. Dear Prime Minister Berlusconi, the invitation to Bunga Bunga who addressed the public on Saturday rejected because it is not acceptable. And I assure you that all began to speak with the voice of citizens who claim their rights.
That the slogan of all who are routinely discriminated against, humiliated, insulted and abused by this policy, poor soul, and that does not listen, so dull, and "no rights without votes."
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