2011: ILGA AND IN FRONT OF THE CASE ITALY EuroPride When it became known in 2011 that Italy would host both the annual conference of ILGA Europe Europride that no one has thought of a random superposition of events, or the result of a extraordinary lobbying Italian. Each of us - and I believe the vast majority of LGBT grassroots activists in Europe - has estimated that the coincidence was the result of proper attention paid to the "Italian case": the distance between our country Europe on the ground of recognition for real equality - and not just formal - including heterosexuals, homosexuals and transgender people is considerable, and goals that are acquired in Europe and no longer under discussion, we seem unattainable.
This vision of our reality is obviously well founded, as well as the diagnosis, which certifies the influence Vatican policy, and politics so easily influenced by the Vatican, the main legal obstacle to become what is now legitimate for the majority of citizens and towns.
But you can not keep quiet about a couple of things that this view overshadows and, in my view, the should enhance our joint work as possible during this year's European vision. First
reduce "the Italian case" and the Vatican hegemony obvious regulatory gap in which we live does not fully represent the reality of our country, which is not that void of freedom and democracy that someone draws. Indeed, he has produced initiatives like the best experiences in Europe and I believe that the final documents of the Project Ahead, which will be presented in Turin on April 29 will tell us more about this hidden reality. Small, yes, but equally significant. What I mean is that we would do a disservice to Europe and to ourselves if we descrivessimo solely as the result of the Berlusconi era or the German pope, because both are followers of a system that dates back at least to the times when the two subjects were children. A system in which rejection of modernity and science, family and lawlessness have been a rule for generations, and we have tests every day, every passing election, every referendum betrayed any new amnesty. No, I'm not talking about something else: I would rather that we were aware that if we had not grown contempt for the rules which we have become undisputed champions, had only to Article 3 of our constitution to ensure the equality that we have today.
But the main issue is another: the resurgent fighting in Italy, and for the moment triumphant, Vatican obscurantism is our goal to the Italians, but also a concrete goal, now, of all Europeans. What the UN is now a fact, which is the block built by the alliance between the Catholic-Christian and Muslim fundamentalism, is taking place in Europe where the influence of Muslim fundamentalism (no influence on government policies, even if increasingly present in the company) is replacing the influence of Orthodox fundamentalism. The embarrassing
block in which the UN organizations are active on land rights as the first signs at European level (the block of the new directive to combat discrimination, the continuing restriction of European legislation against the so-called national sovereignty on the themes "morally sensitive", etc.) are there to show us a reality that we have not yet fully focused on its possible consequences negative.
The Catholic Church has even theorized the new course in public positions taken by many who speak of Italy as a bulwark against the so-called secularism, and not a day goes by that the pope himself unable to give individual targets to be killed.
Until now the influence of the Vatican in individual countries was visible but not very effective. It can become instead, with a potential incisiveness we imagine that even in institutions which are increasingly clearing house between government authority and not an expression of peoples.
We must be able to explain to European movements that "If Italy is the next frontier in all of Europe, stopping in Italy Vatican obscurantism in institutional means to defuse international and EU. This is the biggest challenge that the Conference ILGA Europe 2011 Rome Torino 2011 el'Europride might have.
Enzo Cucco
http://gayindependent.blogspot.com/
12/1/2011
