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Bill Zan, 70 Catholic associations pressing on the Senate: “Illiberal effects be avoided”

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Seventy Catholic associations are pressing the Senate asking to avert “the illiberal effects” of the Zan bill which have nothing to do “with the fight against homophobia”. The signatories include Alleanza Cattolica, the Italian Association of Catholic Psychologists and Psychiatrists, AMCI, Centro Studi Livatino, Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII, Mcl and Movimento per la vita, which ask for an ” urgent meeting with the Conference of Group Leaders ”.

The “save ideas” clause (art. 4) of the Zan bill, the signatories complain, “is absolutely not useful in avoiding illiberal outcomes: it reduces the recognized constitutional right to free convictions and opinions as well as legitimate conduct”. The Catholic associations ask to “avert the illiberal effects that would derive from the provision since the whole structure of the text in question leads to putting back in the hands of the criminal prosecutors the scrutiny of manifestations of thought and associative bonds, which will open a season of denunciations and social hatred, with evident horizontal effects of deterrence on free expression and on the organization of citizens in intermediate bodies ».

Concern also for the art. 7, which, through the introduction of the national day also dedicated to “gender”, would make, according to the signatories, “mandatory, in every school of all levels, the teaching of this ideology even to the smallest and most defenseless even against the opinion of parents, who are the only ones who have the “right” to the education of their children, recognized by art. 30 of the Constitution “. It would then be “trampled the art. 7 of the Constitution, which refers to the Concordat where, in art. 9 “full freedom” is ensured for equal schools, which would instead be compromised at the root of the educational system “. The signatories “in unison ask to avert the illiberal effects that have nothing to do with the fight against homophobia.” Hence the hope that the Senate will “best interpret its role of maximum guarantee of the highest democratic values and the common good for Italian society “.

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