Left guilty of ‘arrogant bullying’ of homophobia law opponents, Italian law prof says
ROME, August 29, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – A statement from the head of the Italian psychologists’ association, condemning those who have opposed the proposed “anti-homophobia” law as homophobes , is a case of “arrogant bullying” an Italian law professor has said in a scathing editorial. Francesco D’Agostino, Professor of Philosophy of Law at the University of Rome Tor Vergata , said in an editorial in Avvenire , the newspaper of the Italian Catholic Bishops, that the accusation is supporting an “an absurd paradigm” in which “some statements, such as those that support that homosexuality is a disease, should be deemed not only false…but deserving of social stigma and repression, if not downright criminal.” The controversy stems from a statement issued this week by the President of the National Council of the order of psychologists, Luigi Palma, which said, “It is very serious that the detractors of the anti-homophobic laws repeat, among others, the idea that homosexuality