In Italy, a quiet, purely symbolic wedding between a lesbian couple, one hospitalized with a severe illness, has caused quite the controversy.
Over the weekend, Gay Star News reports, Bologna town councilor Sergio Lo Giudice, a former president of LGBT organization Arcigay, married two women at the Hospice Seragnoli, a hospital for the terminally ill.
Gay marriage is illegal in Italy, though Milan has joined a list of Italian cities offering a civil union registry. These unions, however, do not afford the legal rights and responsibilities of marriage.
Despite the marriage carrying absolutely no legal weight, local bishop Giovanni Silvagni called it “a move against nature and against the order.”
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Franco Grillini, regional councilor for the Italy of Values party, defends Lo Giudice’s move, saying, “Sergio was right in marrying the two women. He’s been very brave and in Italy we need politicians like him.”
“I made Ida and Mariagrazia happy. This is so important to me and to them,” Lo Giudice explained. Lo Giudice married his partner Michele Giarratano in a civil ceremony last year in Oslo, Norway and has since undergone the process to have the union legally recognized in Italy.
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Meanwhile the church has moved a dozen or so child rapists to other countries so they won’t face justice.
This single fact alone renders any judgment any christian priest or whatever passes on anything irrelevant, the fact they protect people who cause serious harm to the most vulnerable in society by the tens of thousand makes what they think about anything utterly worthless.
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Catholics who are against gay marriage should be aware that up until the 18th century the Catholic Church allowed, venerated and encouraged gay couples to get married. Read this and be informed: http://rense.com/general50/cath.htm