(Source: DIRE) Rome, May 14 – "Giovanardi must have a problem with homosexuality, since we're constantly on his mind." Paolo Patane', president of Arcigay, commented to the Dire news agency on the controversy surrounding the video game "The Sims." For UDC MEP Carlo Casini, leader of the Movimento Pro Vita (Movement for Life), the video game "promotes gay families, marriages, and adoptions" and should not be sold to minors. According to Carlo Giovanardi, Undersecretary for the Family and a member of the PDL (People of Freedom), "the producers of this video game should explain that this option doesn't exist in our country. Man-to-man and woman-to-woman marriage are illegal here. They should be transparent with consumers.".
“I'm happy with this video game,’ Patane commented. ’I think that everything that represents correct and fair dialogue in the world of work, school, and university, whether it's advertising or even a game, helps to remember that a society is made up of a plurality of situations, facts, and lives.
All this contributes to normalizing so many ways of being for men and women, and that's right. There isn't just one way of being.
Contrary to popular belief, people aren't just born straight.".
Patane' emphasizes that "games don't change people's sexual orientation. Orientations are natural, they don't change with games. If someone thinks differently, it's worrying.".
