If the morning is a good indicator of the day, with the Democratic Party we're in goodnight.
The party, from Grosseto, offers us further evidence of the extreme confusion that reigns among its ranks in defining a strategy on the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people that corresponds to a reformist, secular, and progressive party of European inspiration.
Today's news is that the Grosseto Democratic Party (PD) will split over a motion to establish a symbolic register of civil unions presented by Sel, and that the party's Catholics will vote alongside the UDC and PDL.
We are faced with a backward and dangerous group ready to debase the concept of the secular nature of the state and trample on the dignity of homosexuals, lesbians, and trans people—Italian citizens like all others, but never by law.
In short, if, from this point of view, the UDC, Lega, and PDL seem irrecoverable, we are truly tired, very tired, of chasing the PD's "no" votes.
Paolo Patanè, national president of Arcigay
