Posted on 08/14/2018 2:28:19 AM PDT by aquila48
Italy’s right-wing Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini has ordered the wording on some official forms changed so that same-sex couples cannot both declare themselves as a child’s parents.
Salvini, interior minister and leader of the anti-immigrant League party, is now the Italy’s most favored politician, according to some surveys, and his socially conservative policies have proven popular ...
In an interview with a Catholic online newspaper Salvini said he had ordered the identity card application forms for children to be changed to refer to the “mother and father” instead of “parent 1” and “parent 2”.
“We will defend the natural family founded on the union between a man and a woman. I will exert all the power possible,” Salvini told La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana.
In Italy surrogate pregnancies are illegal and same-sex couples cannot adopt children.
However, some courts and city halls have granted parental status to the partner of a mother or father who had children by a previous relationship, even though the right is not enshrined in national law.
Salvini said the government would never contemplate surrogate pregnancies “or similar horrors”.
Support for the League, which governs with the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, has surged from 17 percent of the vote at a March national election, to around 30 percent in recent opinion polls. The less hardline 5-Star, on the other hand, has held steady at about 30 percent.
Salvini’s refusal to take in migrants rescued at sea by humanitarian ships has drawn criticism from some Roman Catholic factions because Pope Francis has made compassion toward refugees and migrants a plank of his papacy.
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But a recent Ipsos poll showed support for Salvini among Catholics who attend mass at least once a week has doubled, reaching almost 32 percent in July from just under 16 percent in March.
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Pope Francis has made compassion toward refugees and migrants a plank of his papacy.
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Franky, ever the politition...is the papacy a religious job or a political system ???
Salvini, Trump and Orban.
Sounds like a law firm from Manhattan!
Kudos to all of them, sooner or later, children generally suffer horribly with same sex parents.
Crazy that the one stand-up guy with a recognizably Catholic family policy, gets sniped at by the pope.
He and the heads of Poland and Austria and the anti-Merkel leader of Germany.
I hope Europe wakes up.
As Steve Hilton pointed out, moving to Sweden or Britain from another country, does NOT make you Swedish or British, really, unlike America.
Offering temporary sanctuary to vetted political refugees is not a bad idea.
Accepting masses of hostile,unattached young men on a permanent basis and attempting to integrate them into a society and culture with no history or tradition of doing so and sacrificing your OWN culture, religion and traditions to do so is the height of insanity.
He and the heads of Poland and Austria and the anti-Merkel leader of Germany.
I hope Europe wakes up.
As Steve Hilton pointed out, moving to Sweden or Britain from another country, does NOT make you Swedish or British, really, unlike America.
Offering temporary sanctuary to vetted political refugees is not a bad idea.
Accepting masses of hostile,unattached young men on a permanent basis and attempting to integrate them into a society and culture with no history or tradition of doing so and sacrificing your OWN culture, religion and traditions to do so is the height of insanity.
Taking a stand!
“Franky, ever the politition...is the papacy a religious job or a political system ???”
For this Pope, Marxism comes before the church. In fact he’s fundamentally transforming the whole catholic church into the church of Marxism.
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