Civil union legislation has been tabled in Italy’s chamber of deputies.

The controversial measure, which would also allow the adoption of the partner’s children, could split the present government coalition.

I took these photos in June, 2009, on assignment for LifeSite to cover Rome’s Gay Pride parade.

The idea was to show some of the ugly reality of the “LGBT” movement, including its political origins, behind the polite sanitized rhetoric. (The photos I’m including here are the nice ones. The ones that aren’t overtly blasphemous or pornographic. There are more here, for the curious and strong-of-stomach.)

At the time, LifeSite decided the pics (that I endured 30 degree weather and thousands of screaming lunatics to obtain) were too horrifying to use. Which sort of both defeated the point and made it at the same time.

The point, people, is that we Have. To. Stop. Looking. Away.

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What was clear was that the movement, as it is manifested in Italy, was both specifically anti-family and anti-Catholic.

In Italy, they’re a little more up front than they are in the US and Britain about the political roots of the movement.

“Vladimir Luxuria” – the leader and spokesmodel of the Italian homosexualist ideological lobby. The same who was given Holy Communion, in front of the news cameras, by the head of the Italian bishops’ conference, Cardinal Bagnasco, at the funeral of Don Andrea Gallo, the leader of northern Italy’s Marxist/anarchist movement. All one big happy family, right?

Now, go back for a moment and revisit Abp. Cupich’s helpful intervention at the press conference the other day.

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