Gay Rights To Suffer With Berlusconi Victory

[ccharles000]

http://365gay.com/Newscon08/04/041508it.htm

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[MADem]

1. Italy changes their leadership like most folks change their socks, damn near.

It seems like just yesterday we were watching Silvio pitch a fit because he lost to Prodi who didn't last long, himself....

The gay-friendly government of Romano Prodi was defeated in January and Prodi was replaced as leader of the left-of-center coalition by Walter Veltroni.

Prodi was sunk when the Senate voted 161-156 to defeat his coalition. The crisis began when the small but key Christian Democrat party which is aligned with the Vatican pulled out of the coalition - in large part due to Prodi's support for same-sex civil partnerships.

The Senate vote ended a fiery session which was rife with homophobic epithets from conservatives. One senator was spat on, fainted and was carried out on a stretcher.

Last fall a proposed bill to grant civil partnerships for gay couples was shelved in a last ditch effort to keep the support of the Christian Democrats but the small party split anyway when some coalition members said they would introduce the partnership measure anyway.

[LostinVA]

2. It's okay -- Italy will elect somebody new in a few months