Vatican attacked for opposing gay decriminalisation

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Source: Reuters

<snip>"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 said.

A strongly worded editorial in Italy's mainstream La Stampa newspaper said the Vatican's reasoning was "grotesque."

Pointing out that homosexuality was still punishable by death in some Islamic countries, the editorial said what the Vatican really feared was a "chain reaction in favour of legally recognised homosexual unions in countries, like Italy, where there is currently no legislation. </snip>

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It looks like the "culture of life" that the RCC espouses includes letting gays be killed legally killed rather than opening a door to legal gay unions.