Vatican Rises Up Against Italy’s Draft Law Against Homophobia
violate the Lateran Treaty, signed by the Vatican City and Italy in 1929, which recognised Vatican City as an independent state. They have protested the new laws, as proposed saying it, “could lead to criminalisation of the church in Italy for refusing to conduct gay marriages, for opposing adoption by homosexual couples through Catholic institutions, or for refusing to teach gender theory in Catholic schools,” according to a Vatican source reported by The Washington Post.But the legislator behind the bill and for who it is named after, Alessandro Zan, an Out gay member of the centre-left Democratic Party has refuted those claims.