Rome's Mayor Rips Political Peer Over Anti-Gay Politics
Veltroni Shows His Teeth
Roman mayor Walter Veltroni won't be celebrating the new year with party peer Dr. Paola Binetti.
Though the politicians are both members of the new Democratic party, Binetti's part of the teodem wing, which follows a far more rigid moral path. The aged lawmaker made headlines this week when she endorsed reparative therapy: just one of her anti-gay stands.
Now Binetti's being ripped by Veltroni for her opposition to non-discrimination legislation:
In an open letter to the newspaper La Stampa Mayor Walter Veltroni chided Dr. Paola Binetti for her resistance against legislation that would bar discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
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“Homosexuality is a human condition," Veltroni argued in his letter… "and the [DP] is working to recognize the rights of homosexual couples.”
Apparently not everyone.
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Dr. Paola Binetti is very closely tied with the Catholic Church. A member of Opus Dei, she wears the self-torture device, the chilice. She says it is like wearing a piercing.
Right - like wearing a piercing through a brain lobe.
Well things are more complicated than that. Veltroni did write a letter to the newspaper, but in fact he, being the mayor of Rome, or any other leader of the Democratic Party have never done anything tangibly to pass a bill to recognize our rights. In Italy glbtq peole are still injured, bashed and sometimes killed. The Vatican claims its right to discriminate and cure homosexual people and noone does anything.
We want facts, not words, mr. Veltroni.
The fact is that reparative therapy has a higher rate of suicides than it does "cures." In fact its' five year sustainable cure rate is …zero.