Here's an interesting event tied not only to LGBTQ rights but secular rights as well. Few days ago, the Italian parliament passed a historic law on homotransphobia.
So, naturally, a priest of the Church of San Nicola in Lizzan, in the province of Taranto, organized a prayer against the law. About twenty young people, with masks on their faces and rainbow-colored flags, keeping their social distance, peacefully protested in front of the church. The priest called on the Carabinieri to try to legitimize the protesting young people in an overpowering, intimidating and ugly way. One of them, on the phone, calls Mayor Antonietta D’Orio. The mayor comes and asks Carabiniere what they are doing.
- “This is not a Vatican state. This is the secular Republic of Italy, in case you didn’t know. There is a democratic right to protest here. "
- "But we do it because we need to sign who they are ..."
- "Then why don't you go into the church and list the ones inside?"
Video of the event that took place in Lizzan on 13th this month
So, naturally, a priest of the Church of San Nicola in Lizzan, in the province of Taranto, organized a prayer against the law. About twenty young people, with masks on their faces and rainbow-colored flags, keeping their social distance, peacefully protested in front of the church. The priest called on the Carabinieri to try to legitimize the protesting young people in an overpowering, intimidating and ugly way. One of them, on the phone, calls Mayor Antonietta D’Orio. The mayor comes and asks Carabiniere what they are doing.
- “This is not a Vatican state. This is the secular Republic of Italy, in case you didn’t know. There is a democratic right to protest here. "
- "But we do it because we need to sign who they are ..."
- "Then why don't you go into the church and list the ones inside?"
Video of the event that took place in Lizzan on 13th this month
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
