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Homosexuality due to ‘acute lack of love in childhood’: gay blogger to chief Italian psychologist

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ROME , August 27, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Homosexuality is a result of an “acute lack of love in childhood, an affective immaturity, a net decline,” one homosexual writer has told the head of the Italian association of psychologists in a public letter. The man, who identifies himself online only as “ Elisha of the desert,” wrote an open letter ,  first published on Saturday on his blog , “ Eliseo del Deserto,” addressed to Giuseppe Luigi Palma, the president of the National Council of the Order of Psychologists. Elisha, a popular gay Italian blogger said that he believes the condition is not a mental illness but merely an “orientation” that can be changed.  Giuseppe Luigi Palma, the president of the National Council of the Order of Psychologists “Homosexuality is much less” than a mental illness, the writer said. “That’s why so many men in the were past homosexuals and are now happily hetero. Sexuality is an orientation, which you will know well, no? Think of compasse

Left guilty of ‘arrogant bullying’ of homophobia law opponents, Italian law prof says

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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