Did the proposed Italian civil union legislation specify that that the civil participants would be “spouses” or that the union would be predicated upon sexual intimacy?
If not, it might have been legislation -— without reference to sodomy -— that could benefit anybody, e.g. family members who share a household and finances, and are permanent caregivers for a disabled son, sister, grandmother.
That is an excellent point and honestly I don’t know. Thanks for making me think.