Gay writer urges Italians to oppose same-sex civil unions bill
ROME – The majority of those in Italy
who identify themselves as “gay” have no interest in “gay marriage” or civil
unions, a gay Catholic writer told LifeSiteNews in an interview this
weekend.
“I would like to reveal something that
perhaps no one has the courage to say; that Arcigay [the national Italian
homosexualist lobby] represents only a small percentage of what people with
homosexual impulses think. Someone has to say that the King is naked!”
The popular Rome-based Catholic blogger
who identifies himself only as “Eliseo del Deserto” (Elisha of the Desert) continues a one-man campaign in favour of a
different direction for gay people from that envisioned by the global homosexualist
movement: one of voluntary chastity and reconciliation with God, a path that he
maintains is the only way to personal peace and emotional growth.
“Civil unions? No thank you! Certainly
there are rights that must be recognized in cohabitation, but the family is
another thing. Marriage is another thing!” he said.
With the announcement by Italian Prime Minister Matteo
Renzi that a civil unions bill will come before Parliament by September, the
homosexualist movement in Italy has achieved unprecedented success.
Specifically citing the example of the recent British “gay marriage” law, which
progressed from civil partnerships to the redefinition of marriage in a single
year, Renzi has promised that the anticipated Italian
law will grant same-sex partners all the rights and privileges of natural
marriage except adoption.
The homosexual lobby "represents
only a small percentage of what people with homosexual impulses think. Someone
has to say that the King is naked!”
But Eliseo said that these kinds of
laws have little to do with the realities in the gay community. He cited a
widely publicized US-based online consumer survey, taken in 2003-04 that found
31 percent of male same-sex relationships last between 1 and 3 years
“Through the sacrament of forgiveness,
in meeting after meeting, I learned about the love of God, not so much in
general, but in a personal way.” In the Catholic Church, this sacrament
can be given only by priests, who, Eliseo said, with their words of compassion
“drop by drop… carved out my heart of stone” and “unlocked situations that are
like chains that imprison us.”
“I want to thank all those brave
priests who have heard my confession at any place, at any hour of the day and
night taking care of my wounds. … What a surprise to not get a slap, but a
hug. Just so I could learn and know that God’s forgiveness has no
boundaries, no limits.”
In this weekend’s interview with LifeSiteNews,
he said the homosexualist “LGBTI” movement has gone the wrong direction. “I am
convinced that as long as gay people continue to hide behind their sex drive,
creating a false polarity between ‘homo’ and ‘hetero,’ then politics,
psychology, media, etc., will be traveling on a false, imaginary track.”
“The only difference [between sexes] is
what is biologically proven, between male and female. As a man or woman we have
the rights and duties that are universal.”
“Then there is the law of common sense.
If one day a large group of people around the world are asking to have beaks
like eagles, do we recognize this as a right? If so our madness would be
similar to their own.”
Asked why he did not support the LGBT
movement, Eliseo said, “We are ready to support the rights of anyone, including
animals, but most [gay activists] do not support the rights of natural families
and especially those of children.”
He pointed to the notorious case of the
well-known Italian singer, Adriano Celentano, who caused a scandal in the 1980s
for helping promote a campaign against seal hunting with the slogan, “I am the
son of the seal.”
Eliseo said, “Here today I cry, ‘I am
the son of my mom and my dad.’”
LifeSiteNews asked whether his own position, that
of a practicing Catholic with same-sex attractions, was common in Italy. Eliseo
said, “It is very common! Usually they [gay activists] accuse the Catholic
Church of not accepting gay people. Not so! Many have found refuge in the
Church.”
“The Church is full of gay people who
offer their wound to God. I cite Philippe Arino, a homosexual French Catholic,
who says, ‘If you give your injury to God, it becomes an open heart.’”
“In a society where everything seems
possible, Catholic sexual morality is depicted as megalomania, and a person is
thought not to be truly free until he gives free rein to his sexual impulses.”
But he believes, “A person is only really free in his sexuality when he knows
how to manage his emotions.”
“Every act of love has its meaning and
time of maturation: from the caress to sexual intercourse. The Church makes no distinction
in this between heterosexuals and homosexuals.”
“We give too much importance to sex, I
say, when you should discover that the greatest love, the culmination of all
love, even romantic love, is friendship!”
He added that homosexuals “need to walk
in the Church, man or woman, without labels.” Most have “suffered emotional
distance” from their fathers and isolation from peers, and have continued this
isolation by keeping exclusively homosexual friends.
“Pope Francis began his early days of
his pontificate with the now famous phrase: ‘Do not steal the hope.’ We
Catholics we let ourselves be frightened by this exhausting cultural revolution
and ideological battles we engage in, allowing it to steal the [social] meeting
space.
“At some point it becomes a style: ‘All
those who do not think like me are my enemies, even if they are Catholics.’
Telling the truth does not necessarily imply having enemies. The mother tells
her son not to put his fingers in the electrical socket, but her son is not her
enemy.”
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