Italian bishops' conference opposes civil-union bill
March 30, 2015
The Italian Catholic bishops’ conference has issued a statement opposing a measure that would provide legal recognition for civil unions.
The legislation, which won approval from a Senate committee last week, would provide for local registration of civil unions, and give partners in these unions many of the right traditionally reserved for married couples, including access to inheritance, health insurance, pension benefits, and adoption of their partners’ children.
Bishop Nunzio Galantino, the secretary-general of the Italian episcopal conference, said that the proposed legislation is an “ideological stretch, reducing objectively different realities to one.”
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