From 5 June 2016, Italy has a law that regulates same-sex unions, obtained after three years of parliamentary procedure. Since 1986, the issue of "civil unions" in Italy has been hangs in the political sphere, through proposals and draft laws that, however, have never been on the agenda for 27 years, neither in the House nor in the Senate, due to the pressures of a political area that has always claimed the heterosexual family as the only family possible at constitutional level and a part of society that has shown, on different media and in different contexts, doubts and perplexities regarding the claim of this right by homosexual couples, also because of a strongly Catholic tradition, whose doctrine has always placed constraints to homosexuality in the broadest sense.
In 2016, Italy is the last of the six founding nations of the European Union to legally recognize the right of union to persons of the same sex.
This is certainly a historic and important step which, on the one hand satisfies (in part) the desires and battles of LGBT associations, Rainbow Families and movements for the rights of homosexuals, on the other creates discontent and mobilization in associations and organizations such as Difendiamo i Nostri Figli, Pro Vita, Famiglia Domani, Giuristi per la Vita, Si alla Famiglia, Le Manif pour Tous, Voglio la Mamma, Sentinelle in Piedi, Uniti per la Famiglia and many others, born with the intent to defend what they consider the natural family, that is the one made up of a man and a woman, and the right of a child to have a mother and a father, obviously of the opposite sex.
Many people responded to the call of this associations, pouring into the streets and streets throughout Italy to protest against the law on civil unions. On January 30th 2016, the symbolic event of this battle, the Family Day, filled the Circus Maximus of Rome beyond its capacity.
These protest movements led to the removal, from the original law, the obligation of loyalty for homosexual couples (provided for heterosexual couples) and the possibility of adopting the child born from a previous relationship of one of the two partners (called stepchild adoption).
Although Italy is legally behind this issue, there are already over 8,000 homosexual couples in our country, of which 600 are dependent children. Some judgments of the judiciary, already for many years, recognize to some homosexual couples, despite the law does not allow it, the assignment of the children of one of the two partners.
Many people in Italy think that granting the legal right of union to persons of the same sex can undermine the present and the future of heterosexual families and the rights of the children eventually adopted by same-sex couples.
Associations and agencies that express these contrary opinions, include among their ranks doctors, psychologists, sociologists, university professors and scholars of all kinds.
It is therefore necessary to understand as soon as possible if the motivations of these associations and their experts, as well as of the hundreds of thousands of Italian citizens who follow them, are attributable to a serious danger for heterosexual families and children or if behind the protest, sometimes very explicit and articulated, hides other reasons or motivations that have even pushed some parliamentarians close to the aforementioned associations to deposit, immediately after the birth of the law, a referendum to repeal it.
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