“The legal recognition of homosexual or heterosexual love relationships is good for the family and society, because it recognizes a right to some It does not mean limiting the rights of others”"this is the reply of the national president of Arcigay, Sergio Lo Giudice, to the words of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger who, in an interview published today in Repubblica, returns to attack the Civil Solidarity Pact (PACS) and the choice of gay marriage as “destructive for the family and society”.
A Belgian gay couple
“"There Zapatero's Spain, like most European countries — continues Lo Giudice — have understood that the unstoppable need to build loving relationships, family cohabitation, and shared projects that is forcefully expressed by gay and lesbian people does not represent a social threat but the exact opposite: a formidable contribution to the construction of a solid network of social relationships by a community condemned for centuries to social atomization and isolation.
“It is not surprising that the head of the former Holy Office reiterates a position of total rejection of the normative recognition of cohabitation and love relationships between gays and lesbians, despite the fact that much more nuanced positions exist within the Catholic Church.
“The definition of secularism proposed by Ratzinger, moreover, as a freedom granted only to 'religions with a responsibility towards civil society' represents a intolerant position and is completely alien to the liberal and democratic tradition of the West, since it claims to select a priori the positions to be allowed and those to be prohibited.
“The famous definition that comes to mind – continues the president of Arcigay – Guido Calogero he gave the concept of secularism that 'it is not so much a doctrine or a religion, as a rule of coexistence for all doctrines and for all religions, it is not so much a characteristic of one's own doctrine, as a rule of behavior in the face of the doctrines of others'‘.
