Bologna, September 3, 2014 – “The usual debased ritual of Italian politics”: Flavio Romani, national president of Arcigay, lashes out at the sudden backtracking by Trentino provincial councilors from Patt and Upt on the law to combat sexual discrimination, approved in July by the council committee and about to be voted on by the chamber. "That text," Romani explains, "has been at the center of a heated debate for several months, which has brought together the various sensitivities of the governing majority. However, the usual rambling intervention by the prelate on duty, in this case Bishop Luigi Bressan, was enough to unleash a series of reactions and concerns that are ignoble in substance and untimely in method. In short, it's the same old story," Romani blurts out: "The Curia's stomach aches are the primary concern of a certain political system that forgets it is voted for by the citizens and therefore must answer to them and the Constitution, not to the altars. Arguments more akin to superstition than faith, used indecently by those who should be the guardians of religious values, are once again forcefully entering the institutional debate, subverting its democratic process and making room for themselves through arrogance and blackmail. This is the kind of politics that makes us ashamed," attacks the head of Arcigay, "that bends the common good to the will of lobbies and turns its back on problems." burning issues, such as homophobia and discrimination more generally, which have long awaited concrete answers. We expect the majority in that chamber to use common sense and reject these crude attempts at delay or cover-up, providing the province of Trento with a law that is, above all, a sign of civility.
