Bishops against civil unions: “A forced ideological” Cirinnà … – the Journal

The “marriage” between Pd and M5S on civil unions , “celebrated” yesterday in the Senate Judiciary Committee, does not like the bishops, that the basic text by Monica Cirinnà (Pd) “wants to do a forcing ideological, reduce to a different reality objectively. “

The Secretary-General of the Cei , Msgr. Nunzio Galantino, in fact, takes issue in particular with the text (which for the moment is only a proposal to bring to the Parliament) in a passage that speaks to unions between persons of the same sex in a double sense: “ is work so that this proposal does not go ahead. There are some details that are not convincing. ” For the general secretary of the bishops “it is not to confuse the proper respect for the rights with the flattening of reality that historically, culturally and anthropologically are different from each other.” The bishop appealed to Parliament because it is “the will and the ability to question the families, hear what people think, otherwise it goes only to lobby “. “There will be a time when families with a father, a mother and their children will have to apologize to exist,” concluded Galantino using a paradox.

“The Democratic Party goes on: the law on civil unions is a commitment made to our constituents and is a recognition of the rights that the Consultation asks us with extreme care, “replied Monica Cirinnà ,” Compared with the positions of the CEI, but I deal with of laws and rights, rather than crimes. There’s sins. Everyone on the topic of civil unions has its positions. And Cei talks, expressing opinions that respect, for the Italian bishops. But I say to my parliamentary mandate and answers to those citizens who ask to have rights. As always when the discussion of the rights, the law of which they are rapporteur asks the consciences of all and will be subject to a free vote, of conscience, of the Parliament. There are those in committee asked to stop the law. But the majority of the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee has decided to vote, because the theme for too many years in Italy, it was decided not to decide . “