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Rome’s new mayor creates ‘civil registry’ for same-sex partners in contravention of Italian law

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In an act that some have called a “derailment” of the Italian constitution , the recently-elected mayor of Rome has announced the establishment of a “registry” in the capital for same-sex partners and expressed approval of adoptions by homosexual partners. The move has been blasted by pro-family groups. Zema Angelo, director of RomaSette, the newspaper of the Diocese of Rome, said the idea is “a derailment from the constitutional principles and national legislation prepared with care, in full awareness of the futility of a possible launch of the registry and its legal irrelevance.” Mayor Ignazio Marino said November 14 th  on Repubblica TV that he is “not afraid of the word marriage between persons of the same sex” and supported adoption of children by homoesxuals provided it’s in the interests of the child. He added that Italy is “terribly backward on the subject of rights”. Rome Mayor Ignazio Marino “If two people love each other enough to get married, I do not see wh

Vatican paper objects to court ruling stating homosexual parenting harmless for children

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ROME , January 14, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Children are being used as bargaining chips in a global struggle between two radically opposed theories of human nature, a leading Catholic bioethicist said this weekend in the Vatican’s newspaper L’Osservatore Romano . Adriano Pessina, director of bioethics at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart , wrote in response to a court ruling on Friday that concerns over harms to children raised in homosexual partnerships are based on “mere prejudice”. “Not only for biological reasons,” Pessina wrote, “the monogamous family is the ideal place where you must learn the meaning of human relationships.” The social crisis building over the broad acceptance of homosexuality is related to the fact that “people with a homosexual orientation want to build a pair bond more and more similar to the family, claiming a right to adopt children.” But there is no such right, “even for heterosexual couples,” he said. “Children are not objects or in