"I believe that this is the bitter price that, together with my husband, we are paying for the defense of Catholic values in politics, the principles of moderation and tolerance against fanaticism and extremism . Just look at the story of the Pope these days to see what happens to Catholics. "
Sandra Lonardo Mastella
story on the Pope's wisdom is' a better place, here.
Here I explain why only when I read the news of the letter of the 67 teachers and I 'seemed like a wonderful news.
and I 'looked beautiful, a rare moment of hope for the future of Italy,' cause in the current climate seems really unthinkable.
While in the last French presidential candidates both between the various points of the program put the increase in rights for gay couples (including one on the right), Italian politicians a thing I can say only if they have a lot to share left of the spectrum, and even then hope that you do not know around too much outside of the circle in which ArciGay and 'was asked. In Italy and
'was possible that someone, in all seriousness', said "according to this new law so and so, the Pope would be prosecuted for homophobia, therefore the law is not good," while in a normal world this argument was used by critics of the Pope, not by his fans, and performed as "So there is' something wrong with the words of the Pope."
Thought only Italian and 'such that it is' just obvious that anyone who has felt a significant position in society' should kneel in front of the Spiritual Power.
So the letter of the 67 teachers strikes me 'and' courageous. It was absolutely predictable, and therefore surely knew that 90% of the information system and 99% of the politicians would have spit on him, that a significant portion of the population would say things like:
They are not the University, work, or when they University which is public property and not the hunting lodge of Baron some reddish, perhaps for reasons of ecological land, maybe even a little anti-Semite.
and increase my admiration and 'the fact that they are people who, given their position, sometimes they have something to lose from this debate. For example
Luciano Maiani, former director of CERN famous to be co-author of a sensational theoretical prediction which was later confirmed, that it 'was recently appointed president of the CNR (but his appointment must be ratified by the parliament):
"You can not' ratify such appointment. Before a teacher who subscribes to such letters. "
(Luca Volonte ', reported by the Corriere del 01/15/2008, p.3)
O O
avenging force of reason! Sacred
you go up
incense and votes! You won the Jehovah
De priests.
(*)
[edit]: then, if he failed to understand, not 'so much the content of the letter to make me happy as the fact that it was written. I do not know if I would have signed. In short, for example, the compromise that the Pope attend and speak well, but first, I would have more 'than satisfied. (In reality 'as well as some signatories of the letter say the same: the letter was referring to the initial hypothesis. But I do not know what' this clarification is sincere and as "political.")
This 'which I think is great news and a' that someone has challenged the predictable media outburst. This
'which I think is positive, and here I differ from those in the "front secular "and says he 'was an own goal, and' that has 'given a message: that even lay people are angry at times.
Our political system and' conditioned by the fact that Catholics are angry when they say, and threaten to move votes. And 'what' that has already led 'long drift of the American system, for example (and that's probably' appeared to us only in recent years because 'only in recent years we have internalized the majority system): If a minority (*) and 'tough on a particular theme, while the majority had no opinion very clear on that same theme, politicians of all sides will be eager to pamper the minority.
If the minority of states that has lay opinions net and as opposed to another minority, and who is not afraid to express, price and 'have more' clashes but the gain and 'democracy to have a more' representative.
'Cause if I putacaso, I was a secular democratic left, who should I vote? Veltroni, who just sees a toga cardinal rushes to kiss a hand as if there was no tomorrow?
(Boselli? Sigh ...)
(*) the majority are Catholics, but Catholics that guide their political choices based on their religious beliefs I do not think they have ever been in Republican history.
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