Bologna, November 26, 2014 – "The ruling by the Udine Prosecutor's Office highlights a very serious abuse of power": Flavio Romani, president of Arcigay, commented on the reasons given by the Udine Prosecutor's Office in recognizing the validity of Rete Lenford's arguments in its complaint challenging the annulment of the registrations of same-sex marriages celebrated abroad. "As we have always maintained," Romani continues, "the imperious act of Alfano and the prefects is illegitimate, unlawful. Today, even the Justice system is making this clear and is taking the Minister and his prefect by the ear. They evidently either don't know the law or are breaking it in the name of a homophobia that they want to make "state-sanctioned" through institutional channels and which, paradoxically, they call legality in the eyes of the public. Instead, Minister Alfano has stumbled over the very Law he professed to defend. And perhaps he is discovering for the first time that the law is equal for everyone, so if we have to resort to the courts to redeem ourselves from the injustices we suffer daily, he too, if he believes the registrations of our marriages are unjust, will have to do the same. This is something a statesman should not only know but profess. Instead, Alfano has used his role and the tools that role provides him to do exactly the opposite and to persecute gay and lesbian couples on the basis of his own beliefs." "Very personal convictions. In short, an extremely serious matter that must lead Angelino Alfano to resign immediately from his government post, urged by a Prime Minister we would like to see at least embarrassed. This would happen today in a normal country," Romani concludes.
