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Among the Italian celebrities who took a stand on the Zan Bill, one of the first to react on the recent Vatican step could only be those of Fedez who writes on Twitter today: “In summary: the Vatican, which has an estimated debt of 5 billion euros on real estate taxes that have never been paid since 2005 for commercial structures, says to Italy” look that with the Zan DDL you are violating the #Agreed””. We recall that Fedez had always defended the bill against homotransphobia with a speech he read during the concert on May 1st and then attacked Rai accusing it of wanting to censor his intervention.

Also Wladimir Luxuria he entrusted his comment on Twitter: “The Vatican’s intervention against the #DDLZan is not a defense of the Concordat but a dangerous attack on article 7 of our Constitution on the secular nature of the state, we are a democracy not a theocracy”. And in a second twitter he recalled how the Zan Bill is a norm that arises from the Mancino Law itself and its principles of fighting hatred: “I just can’t understand why the Vatican considers the Zan Bill, which is inspired by the same Law, dangerous Left-handed against hatred motivated by religious faith ».


Singer Paola Turci he defended the goodness of the law against homotransphobia, commenting: «People are all equal before God but not for the Vatican, which opposes a bill to stop those who discriminate. Congratulations”.

In the criticisms of the position advanced by the Holy See, according to which the Zan bill would violate some principles of the Concordat, the opposition, more generally, to the 1984 Concordat, which regulates relations between the State and the Church, is also growing online: ” The Vatican, which interferes with the Italian state to ask to stop the #DDLZan referring to the Concordat, tells us only one important thing: that we must abolish the #Concordato “writes the TV presenter on Twitter Giulia Inncenzi. Even the wedding planner and TV host Enzo Miccio expressed himself by joining the #StopConcordato campaign.

Are we facing an interference by the Holy See, and therefore by a foreign state, in Italian legal questions? Luca Bizzarri in this regard, he asks: «Who knows which politician will write today:” in our home we must respect our laws “».

Even the singer Elodie he wanted to have his say on the story on his social networks: in a Story shared on his Instagram profile, he resumes himself while walking and says: “A special thanks goes to my parents, who didn’t baptize me, thank you!”, concluding the short video with a kiss to the smartphone camera. Elodie had already entered the debate on the Zan bill, defining “unworthy” the parliamentarians who had postponed the discussion of the law and Senator Pillon himself, who had replied by replying that “evaluations on ideological, useless and divisive laws can wait”.

Emphasize the diplomatic aspect Gabriele Piazzoni, national secretary Arcigay: “The activation of Vatican diplomacy with the use of the Concordat to try to block the process of the Zan law in the Senate is something unprecedented in the relations between the Italian Republic and the Holy See, the explicit and brutal is to remove the debate on the law from Parliament and transform the issue into a diplomatic crisis, placing it in the hands of the Draghi government to ensure that everything is frozen ”. Piazzoni then enters into the merits of the words used by the Secretary of State: “Reading between the words used by Monsignor Gallagher in the official note, it is clear that the problem is not so much the law, but the Italian Constitution, in particular Article 3 to which the law is inspired by recalling their rights to the fundamental freedoms and protections of citizens ”.

Enter the legal issue on National Secretary of GayLib, Daniele Priori: «In a phase of parliamentary debate, everything can be changed. Both the Zan bill and, as the Constitution says in article 7, the Concordat between Italy and the Vatican. We hope that first of all our diplomacy, then the Prime Minister Draghi reject these surreptitious methods that the Vatican hierarchy is using to enter the Italian political, social and cultural debate, bringing the dialectic on the Zan bill back to the field that belongs to it: Parliament sovereign and secular of our national team ».

There are also voices from within the Church: father Alberto Maggi, who has always been at the forefront of welcoming homosexuals, questions the meaning of the formal act (“a bolt of lightning”) advanced by the Vatican to the Italian government and the background of such an important step: “The president of the CEI Bassetti not very long ago made it clear that it is not a question of burying the law but of improving it. And on this we can all agree. Now this thunder comes from the Vatican and I ask myself: will it be a trip to the CEI or even to the Pope himself? ».

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June 22, 2021 (change June 22, 2021 | 16:42)

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