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Mar 07, 2007
Quickie Link: Italy government split by gay rights divide
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By vanrozenheim
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(Rome, Italy) - Paola Binetti says homosexuality is "deviant". Franco Grillini is openly and proudly gay. The problem for Prime Minister Romano Prodi is that both are parliamentarians in his centre-left coalition. The split over gay rights is a constant conflict in Prodi's Catholics-to-Communists coalition. A bill that would give rights to unwed couples, including gays, goes before parliament on Tuesday. The draft bill, which the cabinet approved in early February, was conspicuously absent from the plan. Prodi said the matter was now in parliament's hands but promised his leftist allies that it "has not been dumped overboard".
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