Italian teacher under fire after speaking out against homosexual agenda
January 21, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - The Italian media is piling on a Venetian high school religion teacher for reportedly saying that participants in the "gay" lifestyle aren't born that way and should seek therapy. Enrico Pavanello, 49, says that he was asked to address the topic by his students and decided to send them home with an assignment to reflect critically on a series of assertions about homosexuality. Among other things, Pavanello’s document mentioned the fact that the Kinsey Report , which famously claimed that homosexuals comprise 10% of the population, has been debunked. "No one is born gay," Panavello reportedly said in class, "but they become that way by making a specific choice, and therefore whoever has this condition should seek to be cured." Panavello also distinguished the term "gay," which normally refers to the lifestyle and behavior, from "homosexual," which is used to refer more generally to those who