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VENICE, September 4, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – The municipal government of the city of Venice, Italy has passed a law banning the terms “mother” and “father on forms parents must fill out to gain a place for their children at publicly funded day care and kindergartens.  The “ civil rights and anti-discrimination ” policy was introduced by city councilor Camilla Seibezzi, who said that such changes to language are a fundamental objective to combat stereotypes. “The [linguistic] construction forms a category of thought, a daily practice,” she said.  The newspaper,  Corriere del Veneto , reports that the terms will be replaced by “parent 1” and “parent 2”. The change has not been popular, however, and Seibezzi has lodged a complaint with police against comments posted to a social media platform that she says were threatening.  Seibezzi told the Venetian daily La Nuova that “rainbow families” that are not recognized in Italian law are “the reality of our daily lives”. Seibe

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