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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

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 publicl