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Italian minister goes on hunger strike to support legalisation of gay civil unions
Source: Agence France-Presse
Italian minister goes on hunger strike to support legalisation of gay civil unions
AFP in Rome
Thursday 2 July 2015 14.20 BST
A junior minister in the Italian government has gone on hunger strike in a protest aimed at speeding up moves to introduce civil unions for gay couples.
Ivan Scalfarotto, 49, said in his blog he was aiming to force discussion of the issue into the mainstream and rally the support of “all those people of good faith who have been thinking up until now that it was enough just to wait”.
“Between the demonstrations of Catholic fundamentalists and the Gay Pride marches, you’d think there was nothing in between,” wrote the minister, who is gay and a long-standing rights campaigner.
“The time has come to do something more to support those working to ensure Italy finally catches up with Kentucky, or at least gets near,” he added in a reference to the recent US Supreme Court ruling, which forces even the most conservative of states to allow gay marriage.
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AFP in Rome
Thursday 2 July 2015 14.20 BST
A junior minister in the Italian government has gone on hunger strike in a protest aimed at speeding up moves to introduce civil unions for gay couples.
Ivan Scalfarotto, 49, said in his blog he was aiming to force discussion of the issue into the mainstream and rally the support of “all those people of good faith who have been thinking up until now that it was enough just to wait”.
“Between the demonstrations of Catholic fundamentalists and the Gay Pride marches, you’d think there was nothing in between,” wrote the minister, who is gay and a long-standing rights campaigner.
“The time has come to do something more to support those working to ensure Italy finally catches up with Kentucky, or at least gets near,” he added in a reference to the recent US Supreme Court ruling, which forces even the most conservative of states to allow gay marriage.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/02/italian-minister-hunger-strike-support-legalisation-gay-civil-unions
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