FIRST ACT: July 11, 2005
ROBERTO CALDEROLI
""The homosexual family is, in fact, a failed family and can only give birth to other anomalous individuals, thus undermining the values that are at the foundation of the family itself, and therefore of all of society.""
Hon. Roberto Calderoli
Minister of Institutional Reforms
NORTHERN LEAGUE PADANIA
PIER FERDINANDO CASINI
""The Zapatero laws are reactionary, not progressive, because they defend the strongest, namely homosexuals, to the detriment of the weakest, in this case children, who would lose the natural right to affection for a father and a mother in order to satisfy an unnatural right.""
Pier Ferdinando Casini
President of the Chamber of Deputies
Union of Christian Democrats – UDC
MARCELLO PERA
""This is the triumph of that secularism which claims to transform desires, and sometimes even whims, into fundamental human rights.
This secularism seems to me ahistorical and even dangerous.""
Senator Marcello Pera
President of the Senate of the Republic
GO ITALY
CAMILLO RUINI
""Not granting homosexuals social and legal equality is not discrimination contrary to justice, but is instead required by justice itself, which prohibits placing on the same level as marriage forms of union that cannot achieve the essential purposes for the good of individuals and society.""
Cardinal Camillo Ruini
Secretary of the Italian Episcopal Conference – CEI (the one that promotes the eight per thousand)
SECOND ACT: July 25, 2005
SIMONE SCATIZZI
"Current culture is undermining the very virility of men! The alarm raised in the United States is echoing throughout Europe, including Italy. Zapatero's Spanish laws certainly won't improve the situation. If this is the case, not only are gay marriages a further negative factor, but so is the Registry of Homosexual Unions itself."
Monsignor Simone Scatizzi
Archbishop of Pistoia
CLEMENTE MASTELLA
""If the programmatic plan says 'ok' to unions between groups, we're not in favor."’
CLEMENTE MASTELLA
Secretary of the UDEUR
ANDREA GEMMA
""For God, stealing is as much a sin as being gay.""
Monsignor ANDREA GEMMA
Bishop of Isernia
PAOLO AVEZZ'’
""One is free to practice one's sexuality as one wishes, with one's peers and beyond (trees, plants, minerals, zebras, and hamsters). But only in one's own home. Society shouldn't tolerate and acknowledge every whim and desire of individuals.""
PAOLO AVEZZ'’
Mayor of Rovigo
Forza Italia