Bologna, December 17, 2014 – "Everything makes sense": Flavio Romani, president of Arcigay, bitterly commented on the vote by the Faenza City Council on Monday evening, which approved a motion supporting the "natural family" and opposing same-sex marriage. "That agenda," Romani explains, "is a show of force, a clerical trophy that has been passed from chamber to chamber these past weeks to define who, between lay and clerical members, is 'in charge' in each one. It's a virtuosity typical of those who spend their time twiddling their thumbs in the chamber, since it determines nothing and could never determine anything. The agenda's only utility is to plant a 'flagship': thanks to that vote, we discover that the majority of those elected in that chamber support an unconstitutional initiative whose rhetoric, underlying thought, and objectives recall Benito Mussolini's twenty-year reign. That majority includes, in addition to right-wing councilors, exactly half of the Democratic Party's elected officials, including the mayor and prime minister. For some, this may come as a cold shower, but it's not for us: since the founding of the Democratic Party, we have been denouncing the right of public speaking reserved in that party to the clerical lobby, from Binetti onwards. And it has always been on our skin. of gays, lesbians, and trans people, a veritable obsession of ecclesiastical power, which has gambled away the agreement to corrupt the largest center-left party from within. What was once described as a residual phenomenon was and is in reality a specific political project. The case of the Faenza Council is one of the stages of this process, now so evident that it has sparked conflicts with all social parties and is a topic of debate on the front pages of newspapers. "What is the Democratic Party?" Romani asks. "Who supports it? Who is part of it? And what objectives does it actually stand for?" For years, the largest center-left party has held a country hostage, unable to give it any credible future, due to its inability to provide answers to these fundamental questions, both to itself and to voters. And indeed, precisely in Emilia-Romagna, where the vote in Faenza shows a metamorphosis already well underway, the Democratic Party is in full hemorrhage, fresh from primaries with record numbers and a low turnout. for the latest regional elections that offend the democratic tradition of that region. The broad coalitions are within the Democratic Party, not outside. The New Center Right is merely the "bad company" of the Democratic Party; the new generation of clerics are aligned behind Renzi. The Faenza vote and numerous other episodes like this demonstrate this: anyone who denies it is mystifying. With this clerico-fascist Trojan horse roaming the center-left, in every chamber and at every level, talk of reform is almost a threat. We saw it with the Law against Homotransphobia, which in its crippled progress through Parliament was merely provided with a safe conduct for neo-fascists; we are seeing it again with the Jobs Act and we continue to see it every time rights, people's lives, and their dignity are discussed. At this point, we would be curious to ask the new governor of Emilia-Romagna, Stefano Bonaccini, to whom the Faenza city council's request is addressed and who for five years, as regional secretary, he held the reins of the party that today gives birth to these horrors, if in his heart he would correspond to the wishes of that agenda, to make us and everyone understand how great in reality is the flag placed the other evening by the clericals in Romagna".
