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Italian MPs introduce bill to protect parents’ constitutional rights against confused homosexual ‘gender ideology’

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ROME , April 9, 2014 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Italian Deputies Eugenia Roccella and Alessandro Pagano have introduced a bill in Parliament that would establish the rights of parents to make decisions about their children’s education, particularly on moral issues. The move comes in response to increasing concerns by some deputies, parent groups, and civil rights organizations that the government is being co-opted by organized activists to push the so-called “gender ideology” in schools and other Italian institutions. Eugenia Roccella The purpose of the bill, Roccella said at a press conference, is to “reaffirm and ensure the fundamental right to educational choice of parents, as set out, inter alia, in the European Convention on Human Rights and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child .”  Which means in practice, she said, that in all school activities that “relate directly or indirectly to the issues related to relationships, affectivity and sexuality education, and ot

Italian member of parliament blasts national broadcaster for bias on ‘anti-homophobia’ bill

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A Sicilian member of the Italian parliament has blasted the nation’s public broadcaster over bias in favor of the pending “anti- homophobia ” bill after the broadcaster abruptly canceled an appearance by a prominent opponent of the bill.   On November 3 rd , RAI TV ( Radiotelevisione Italiana ) aired a program that was advertised as a debate on the issue of homophobia with  Giancarlo Cerrelli , the vice president of the Unione Giuristi Cattolici (Union of Catholic Lawyers). But at the last moment, the broadcaster withdrew its invitation, and the mother of a homosexual boy was substituted.  PDL Deputy Alessandro Pagano blasted RAI TV, saying that while the mainstream media may have “a vested interest to disclose a positive and reassuring image of the LGBT lobby ,” RAI should be held to a different standard as the ostensible representative of the whole country. Instead, they have demonstrated “a partial and ideological perspective” on an issue that is “sensitive and extremely de