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The status of Italy ’s draft anti- homophobia law remains uncertain the morning after a late-night debate in the Chamber of Deputies . Deputies failed to come to a final decision on the bill that has been panned as a means to shut down public opposition to planned “gay marriage” and civil unions laws. The debate is expected to be continued through the rest of the week, with the bill possibly not going to a vote until the House reconvenes in September. Eugenia Rocella Eugenia Roccella, a PdL Deputy and former feminist who has embraced the pro-life position, has opposed the bill, accusing leftist elements in the government of attempting to stifle the debate and asking why it was being brought forward at the last possible moment before the summer break. “It’s absurd that at a time when the country expects answers to the problems of the [economic] crisis, and when Parliament is crowded with decrees, to insist on entering at all costs the law on homophobia. [Maybe] the Lef

Brazilian pro-family politicians have announced that they will fight a decree issued by the country’s National Council of Justice (CNJ) that orders all of Brazil’s registrars to accept applications for homosexual “ marriage ” and threatens them with legal action if they refuse. The decree, which was issued on May 14, claims to implement a  2011 decision  by the country’s Supreme Federal Tribunal , which ruled that homosexual unions are eligible to be registered as “stable unions,” similar to common-law marriages in Anglophone countries. However, parliamentarians from the Social Christian Party and other pro-family representatives are crying foul, pointing out that the Tribunal’s decision does not mention “marriage.” They say they intend to file suit with the Tribunal against the CNJ to nullify the decree. “Our understanding is that it was disastrous decision, inappropriate and unconstitutional,” said Everaldo Pereira, vice president of the Christian Social Party. He a

 Pastor Marco Feliciano, a Brazilian Evangelical who was recently elected as the chairman of the Human Rights Committee for the national Chamber of Deputies , is not satisfied with holding his ground against  bitter protests and pressure to resign  from homosexual activists and their allies.  To the outrage of the country’s gay lobby, he is now introducing legislation to roll back the prohibitions placed on reparative therapy for homosexuality by the country’s Federal Council of Psychology (CFP). The proposed legislation, authored by Evangelical deputy Joao Campos, would override parts of a resolution passed by the CFP in 1999, which prohibit psychologists from seeking to cure homosexuals of their sexual inclination or from endorsing the notion that their condition is any way psychologically disordered.  A similar measure failed last year. The CFP is a quasi-governmental body with the power to govern and restrict the activities of all Brazilian psychologists, and it ha