Italian Official Supports Civil Unions and Liberalization of Assisted Fertility Law

In Italy, according to AKI, the government's new Minister for Family has taken on the Vatican. The minister, Rosy Bindi, is a practicing Catholic whose religion has been important in her political career. In a published interview yesterday, Bindi supported civil unions as well as changes to Italy's restrictive assisted fertility law. Her interview came only two days after Camillo Ruini, the head of the Italian Bishops' Conference, spoke in opposition to civil unions saying that only homosexuals were interested in the move because "heterosexual couples eventually end up getting married." Here is the interview in Italian from Corriere Della Sera.