As Coordinamento Palermo Pride, Arcigay Palermo, Famiglie Arcobaleno, and Ali D'Aquila – LGBT Christian people, we firmly distance ourselves from the debate on the registration of children of same-sex couples that will take place in Palermo in the coming days.
The question, which concerns us politically and personally, seems to us to be poorly posed from the points of view of method and merit.
In the method, because it is yet another confrontation/clash between fans: lawyers and deputies that speak of same-sex families WITHOUT families. No mothers and fathers, no sons or daughters: as if real life were less valuable than legal debates and debates between MPs. Something halfway between a duel and a boxing ring (which remain so even without swords or fists), where what's missing is the voice of those who suffer discrimination and who engage in the same battles in their daily lives that others squabble over from above. A political practice we cannot share and which is the antithesis of struggles for liberation and self-determination.
But this initiative is also incomprehensible on the merits: the committee organizing it has already publicly supported the YES vote with an appeal that subsequently led to a motion in the City Council (again, it should be emphasized, without first involving same-sex families).
So what's the point of giving voice to the NO vote? We already know the basic answer: listen to all sides to form your own opinion. But this, if anything, should have been done (and has been done with similar initiatives, in fact) BEFORE producing public documents in favor of the YES vote.
Continuing to do so afterward makes sense, however, only within a framework in which people and their demands are reduced to "topics of debate" and the purely theoretical confrontation between fan groups becomes more important than the protagonism of those who represent those demands with their real lives.
These are the reasons that push us to say forcefully: talk about it, but not in our name.
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