Italy: Anti-homophobia, ‘transphobia’ bill could silence Christians
PRETTY SOON, WE’RE GOING TO HAVE TO ACTUALLY LET LIBERALS SEXUALLY MOLEST US TO PROVE WE’RE OK WITH THEIR LIFESTYLE CHOICES. IF WE REFUSE, WE’LL BE BRANDED AS CLOSED MINDED RACIST HOMOPHOBE BIGOT IDIOTS. WHICH OF COURSE WE ALREADY ARE BECAUSE OUR OPINION IS DIFFERENT FROM THEIRS. SHAME ON US.
“ROME, August 5, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today’s session of the Italian Lower House is the last opportunity Deputies will have to discuss a highly contentious “anti-homophobia” law that opponents have said will shut down and criminalize any public opposition to “gay marriage,” civil unions, or homosexuals adopting children.
Avvenire, the official newspaper of the Italian Catholic bishops’ conference, has said that, as in Britain, this law could usher in prosecutions against religious associations or clergy who publicly denounce the homosexual act as a sin.
The strongest objections have warned that Italy could be following the same path as Britain by introducing a law that would strike at freedom of thought, expression, and religious belief, all rights that are explicitly defined by the Constitution.
Critics of the bill, who include constitutional legal experts as well as the Italian Catholic bishops, have warned that the bill will make it a criminal act to publicly recite scriptural passages against homosexual activity or to repeat Catholic teaching that homosexuality is “intrinsically disordered,” or contrary to the natural law.”
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