(ANSA) Rome, January 29 - A vote by the Rome city
government to ratify same-sex 'marriages' performed outside
Italy is just an "ideological bluff," the Roman Catholic diocese
of Rome said Thursday.
"The Campidoglio, with the vote yesterday, has decided to
discriminate knowingly against families," said Angelo Zema,
editor of the website www.romasette.it run by the Rome diocese
of the Church.
The vote is "a symbolic stage in an anti-family itinerary
that opens up disturbing horizons damaging children," said Zema
in an editorial.
Several local councils in Italy have sought to ratify
same-sex unions contracted abroad on official wedding registers
but Interior Minister Angelino Alfano has said repeatedly that
such registration is invalid.
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