E 'midnight 10 May. Between 48 hours and we will all be over images of a Piazza San Giovanni in Rome invaded by a million people to think about. For people like me never had any real hope for change in this term (a majority-hanging on the wire Mastella Rutelli what ever he could produce different? ...) Will not change much. If you do not increase the disgust of the reading of daily newspapers in the days after (how many weeks ....) Insist on the 'epoch-making event. "
course, all of us in that square gioiremmo if there will be only one person in less than one million that they expect (do not believe sly statements by the spokespersons of the Clerical Day 100/200 speaking of thousand people are expected ...) and there solace in front of the incursions of hyenas and various tg3 that never fail to stress unpresentable sides, possibly homophobic, certainly in that square you will find.
But the truth lies somewhere else. He's in an Italian company which will be marked for years by a clerical minority that is experiencing, as in the rest of the world, a powerful revival. It is a pervasive social minority whose effective on the long-term bet not, since the roots of our secular life are deep, more than our leadership wants to admit. But today we face the reality of a clerical minority who chose to use the weapon of doom based on anthropological legitimacy of homosexual behavior. Using the rhetorical theme of the family as a unifying, as you do when you talk about peace, justice, equality, without specifying at what cost and for whom. The new marketing
Vatican chose the time and the right theme, just like an old liquor or an old candy bar that no one more row. Great communication strategy, many advertising investments, extraordinary wisdom in the shoes of the censored and discriminated against minority (just think, 'also have the nerve to use this argument ...). A celebration of Mulino Bianco, well ....
careful, though, because if we make the mistake of interpreting what happens only using that point of observation would understand nothing of what is actually happening. Just like those who believe that the success of a commercial product is "only" in the relentless television advertising. There is more, and if we do not these questions we are doomed to become, truly this time, the country from which the Catholic reconquest in the world.
What can be done, what weapons to use those who insist on believing, like us, the power of reason and dialogue? I do not know, we'll see what happens, what will the consequences of the medium and long term of this showdown in front of a Catholic. What the sound quality (I have no particular expectations about the quantity) of participation in Piazza Navona, and we must thank the hard head of radical if there is someone who will try to nibble away at least a bit 'of media overexposure of Clerical Day
A pause would not hurt the gay movement. Perhaps to reflect on what and how we contributed to the "success" of the event on May 12 in Piazza San Giovanni in Rome.
Enzo Cucco
May 10, 2007
