Letting courts rule on gay
adoptions would signal "the end of civilization", the
secretary-general of the xenophobic, separatist Northern League
party said Wednesday.
"Judges must not decide on such matters," Matteo Salvini
said.
"It would be the end of civilization," the MEP stated. "As
far as we are concerned, gays must never be allowed to adopt
children".
His remarks came after a Rome court on Friday approved the
first adoption of a child by a lesbian couple. The girl is the
biological child of one of the women.
Salvini went on to blast Premier Matteo Renzi's 1,000-day
reform and economic stimulus package, which was unveiled on
Monday.
"Italy does not have 1,000 days," the League leader said.
"Renzi is promising a lot and doing nothing".
The League stands by its proposal of a flat tax capped at
20% and a federal regime that would "reward economically
virtuous regions", Salvini said.
The anti-immigrant leader went on to say that while the
government rescues thousands of African and Middle Eastern war
refugees in the Mediterranean, it is apparently unable to bring
home two Italian marines being detained in India after they shot
two Indian fishermen to death.
"We should sanction India not Russia," suggested Salvini,
who reportedly once called for immigrants to travel in separate
compartments.
Salvini made waves with a Corriere della Sera newspaper
interview published Wednesday in which he praised North Korea, a
pariah in the international community due its systematic human
rights violations. The North Korea embargo is "idiotic", Salvini
said.
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