Vatican: no to legal gays

A United Nations proposal to decriminalise homosexuality worldwide will be opposed by the Vatican.

The Church’s UN observer Celestino Migliore said the Vatican opposed the resolution because it would "add new categories of those protected from discrimination".
"If adopted, they would create new and implacable discriminations," Migliore said.
"For example, states which do not recognise same-sex unions as 'matrimony' will be pilloried and made an object of pressure," Migliore told a French Catholic news agency.
However, the Vatican’s announcement has not been well received in Italy.
Italy’s La Stampa newspaper described the Vatican’s decision as “grotesque” and pointed out that homosexuality is punishable by death in more than 85 countries.
What the Vatican really feared, La Stampa said, was a "chain reaction in favor of legally recognised homosexual unions in countries, like Italy, where there is currently no legislation."
Italian gay rights group Arcigay said the Vatican decision was "total idiocy and madness."

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