Giorgia Meloni treasures Italy’s families – unless they include same-sex parents
The family may be the cultural bedrock of Italian society, but an entirely conservative and patriarchal idea of family is what our current leaders and the country’s most powerful institutions want to promote. Giorgia Meloni’s words are always carefully chosen: “a child needs a mum and a dad”, “there is only one type of family – the one formed by a man and a woman”. Italy’s first female prime minister, who leads a hard-right coalition, likes to invoke the slogan “God, country and family”; she campaigned against what she calls “the LGBT lobby”, describes herself as “a woman, a mother, a Christian” and opposes same-sex marriage.… Seguir leyendo »