Vicar General of Rome Agostino
Vallini said Monday that he was against recognition of civil
unions and argued that the government's bill on this issue was
unnecessary.
"The family is a different thing," said Vallini, the
pope's deputy in the Rome diocese.
"The government will make its decisions, but the civil
code sufficed".
Vallini added that one of the "delicate" aspects of the
issue regarded the adoption of children.
The bill would give same-sex couples many of the same
rights and responsibilities as straight married couples,
including the right for one spouse in a civil union to adopt the
other spouse's children.
On Sunday Nunzio Galantino, the secretary general of
Italian Bishops Conference CEI, blasted the bill, saying it was
the result of "cross-eyed policy".
"It's inconceivable that the government is spending so
much energy for these special kinds of union and is putting in
the corner traditional families, which should be a pillar of
society," Galantino said.
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