Posted on 11/08/2004 10:07:31 PM PST by crushelits
Italians largely oppose gay marriage with 61 percent rejecting homosexual wedlock and even more opposed to adoption for same-sex couples, a poll on Sunday showed.
In traditionally Roman Catholic Italy, home to the Vatican, only 32 percent of the population is favorable to gay marriage, according to a survey carried out for la Repubblica newspaper.
Only 21 percent of Italians thought a homosexual couple should be allowed to adopt a child.
Gay marriage has become a hot topic in Europe after Spain's new Socialist government approved a law last month that would give gay and lesbian couples the same right to marry, divorce and adopt children as heterosexuals.
Spain's move has been a particularly bitter pill for the Vatican since the law will make the traditionally Catholic country only the third in the world to legalize gay marriage after the Netherlands and Belgium.
A similar proposal is not likely in Italy where Church doctrine is still influential as seen by a recent fertility law, which has been called the most restrictive in Europe. Story continues
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He is against the socialism.
Berlusconi is a coservative.
The Parliament is another thing.
God Bless Roderigo Diaz "El Cid" de Bivar.
Spain needs him more than ever.
I understand that. But he owns TV stations or a network, no? Why wouldn't his network be an Italian FoxNews?
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