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born 1948 Italy
Rocco Buttiglione (born 6 June 1948) is an Italian Union of Christian and Centre Democrats politician and an academic. Buttiglione's nomination for a post as European Commissioner with a portfolio that was to include civil liberties, resulted in controversy as some political groups opposed him for his conservative Catholic views on homosexuality, despite his assurances that these were only his personal convictions and would not dictate his administration.
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Di Pietro appeared to be someone capable of enforcing the law against bullies, a bit like Robin Hood.
I'm better at wooing than Berlusconi: I can prove it to you.
As a Roman Catholic, I consider homosexuality a sin, but not a crime. Mine is a moral position that does not affect the rights that must be recognised for all.
Can I link Luca di Montezemolo and Pope Benedict XVI? Both condemn ethical relativism, understood as the transfiguration of the Italian art of getting by, looking out for oneself and disregarding the common good.
Those who attack the judiciary do so to find themselves an alibi... The primary enemy is corruption.
Children who only have a mother and no father are the children of a not very good mother. And children who only have a father are not children, because a man alone can make a robot. But he cannot make children.
Silvio is great. We do not regret the good things we have done with him, but he is the past, let's say it loud and clear. The country can no longer hold out and needs someone to show the way to the future.
From a political and social point of view, I am against any discrimination against gay people. But morally, I think it is wrong. However, there are many things that are morally wrong but which the law should not prosecute.
There is a politicisation of the judiciary that negatively distinguishes our country in the European context and shakes citizens' confidence in the judiciary. An entire political class has been swept away with a few convictions, but with many notices of investigation, sometimes with the suspicion that these were carefully calibrated to achieve political effects.
We are writing to you with a request to improve the quality of life in the Senate. The refreshment bar does not serve ice cream. We believe it would be useful to do so and we are certain that this reflects the wishes of many. Would it be possible to arrange this?