Posted: 02/04/2016 at 6:22am
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"Gargantuan Protest" in Rome as Over a Million Turnout to Support Traditional Marriage
by Matthew Cullinan Hoffman : Feb 3, 2016 : LifeSiteNews
"Over one million people filled to overflowing the
biggest sports arena ever built to demonstrate their disapproval of the
Cirinnà bill on civil unions and voice their belief that children have a
right to a mother and a father." -Breitbart.com
(Rome,
Italy)—As the Italian Parliament prepares to vote on "civil unions" for
homosexuals, a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people rallied in
Rome's Circus Maximus and adjacent streets on January 30 to protest in
favor of the family and the rights of children. (Photo: Getty/via Breitbart.com)
The gargantuan protest, dubbed "Family Day,"
was organized by the Committee to Defend Our Children, and aimed to
thwart an attempt by the ruling Democratic Party and its allies to grant
legal recognition to homosexual unions and to allow homosexuals to
adopt their "stepchildren"—that is, the children of their sex partners.
The protestors expressed their concern that
such a measure would enable homosexuals to contract with egg donors and
surrogates to "synthesize" children who will never know their mothers
and who lack any right to a natural family.
"The uterus is not a furnace in which a
manufactured product is made!" said Massimo Gandolfini, the main
spokesman for the march, to the assembled crowd.
Calling the proposed law "destructive,"
Gandolfini warned that if it were approved, "there will be an enormous
confusion in which the family will no longer exist, but rather various
models and confusions of the family, and the victims will be our
children, because the law has the power to change the culture of a
people."
A vote on the bill is expected in early February.
Notably, the organizers avoided comments
critical of homosexual behavior, as did the Catholic bishops who
supported the march, led by Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, Archbishop of
Genoa and president of the nation's episcopal conference. However,
Bagnasco defended the traditional understanding of the family and the
rights of children.
"The true good of the children must prevail
over everything else," said Bagnasco days before the march. "They are
the weakest and most vulnerable. They are not a right at all, because
they are not things that are..."
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Link> Source: www.breakingchristiannews.com/
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