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Women and gays rally in Italy.

To update on Vanessa's post, in light of Pope Benedict's (aka B-Dizzle) not-so-kind words on gays and abortion, the people of Italy have rose up.

Tens of thousands of women marched through Milan to keep Italy's liberal abortion law intact while gays rallied in Rome to push for legal recognition for homosexual couples as both issues heated up in the campaign for the premiership.

The Vatican and government ministers were totally heated.

"These demonstrators are really nauseating," Reforms Minister Roberto Calderoli was quoted as saying by the Italian news agency ANSA. "Family is a serious thing, based on love between a man and a woman." He is a member of the right-wing Northern League party.
Shut the fuck up.

Anyway, so the march for gay rights (not even marriage rights, just legal recognition!) in Milan drew in about 1,000 people. In Rome they estimated 50,000 people came out to protest the potential overturning of the 1978 law giving women the right to abortion.

Of course the Pope said he doesn't believe in giving legal recognition to gay couples and he still condemns abortion. (I mean really, shut the fuck up!)

via CNN.com

Posted by Samhita - January 15, 2006, at 03:27PM | in Activism

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[0+]  Dim Undercellar said:

On the other hand, there's really not much more you can say to a group of people who believes that reorganizing the entire universe is easier and more theologically sound than saying birth control is acceptable or gays are human beings, beyond a big, hearty STFU.

[0+]  Kyra said:

She wasn't arguing her position, Felix. She was expressing contempt for theirs.

As for the Northern League dipshit who said "Family is a serious thing based on love between a man and a woman," well, then why doesn't he advocate for gay couples to be called something other than "families" in their legally recognized equal status. Like, a man, a woman, and their children are called a "family," and a gay couple and their children are called a "grignik" or a "spaffle" or something like that? Of course he'd have some work to do going through all the legislation and adding "and spaffles" to every instance in which the word "family" comes up. But then, hey, he's the one who doesn't like calling them families, he's the one who should do the work of making sure they have equality without using the word.

Yeah, I'm joking. I'm glad he finds the protests disgusting, though. He deserves to be disgusted.

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