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Ad showing 'homosexual' newborn causes stir in Italy
AFP ^ | October 26, 2007 | N/A

Posted on 10/26/2007 9:25:55 AM PDT by Catholic Canadian

Wed Oct 24, 1:54 PM

ROME (AFP) - An ad campaign to counter discrimination against gays has stirred up passions in Italy, using a poster that shows a newborn with the word "homosexual" written on his wristband. ADVERTISEMENT

"Sexual orientation is not a choice," reads the slogan on the poster that was going up all across the central-northern Tuscany region and was published in national newspapers Wednesday.

"Using newborns to make people believe that homosexual impulses are an innate characteristic is dishonest and a disgrace," said Christian Democratic lawmaker Luca Volonte.

Gay philosopher Gianni Vattimo said the ad was in "bad taste" and that the slogan was "only partly true."

Italy's main gay rights association ArciGay, for its part, praised the initiative, saying homosexuality is an "unchangeable fact that should be respected."


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: children; homosexuality; sexualisation
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Ok. The world has gone mad, it's official.
1 posted on 10/26/2007 9:25:56 AM PDT by Catholic Canadian
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too bad FReepers don’t have a way to rate the weirdest story of the day.


2 posted on 10/26/2007 9:27:58 AM PDT by tired1 (responsibility without authority is slavery!)
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To: Catholic Canadian

If gayness is innate, how come it can be cured? How come there are ex-Homosexuals?


3 posted on 10/26/2007 9:27:59 AM PDT by agere_contra (Do not confuse the wealth of nations with the wealth of government - FDT)
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To: Catholic Canadian

How does one become a gay philosopher?


4 posted on 10/26/2007 9:28:21 AM PDT by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: Catholic Canadian

They “know” that homosexuals are born that way, they just can’t identify the causality or associated factors.

But, they “know”.


5 posted on 10/26/2007 9:29:01 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: tired1
too bad FReepers don’t have a way to rate the weirdest story of the day.

Agreed. IMO, with the macaque story as a solid 8, this one barely rates a 3 out of 10.

6 posted on 10/26/2007 9:29:41 AM PDT by agere_contra (Do not confuse the wealth of nations with the wealth of government - FDT)
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To: SJSAMPLE

Kinda like the ever elusive missing link.


7 posted on 10/26/2007 9:30:05 AM PDT by Catholic Canadian ( I love Stephen Harper!)
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To: Catholic Canadian
"Sexual orientation is not a choice"

Sexual behavior is.

8 posted on 10/26/2007 9:30:59 AM PDT by joebuck
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While I don’t necessarily think most gays are born that way, I have a feeling some are.

I grew up in a small town and as early as kindergarten there were two “sissies” in my class. Both liked to spin around on the playground pretending to be Linda Carter turning into Wonder Woman.

Of course, they are gay as adults. If they were not born that way, it had to have transpired VERY early. I suspect one was ruined by his grandmother. They lived near my grandmother and I would see him out in the yard with a dress on. Who would allow that?


9 posted on 10/26/2007 9:32:35 AM PDT by L98Fiero (A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
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If one non-traditional sexual orientation is an unchangeable fact that should be respected, what about other non-traditional sexual orientations? Like pedophilia or pederasty. Should a pederast be punished for behaving exactly as he is biologically wired?
10 posted on 10/26/2007 9:33:06 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze
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To: SJSAMPLE
They “know” that homosexuals are born that way, they just can’t identify the causality or associated factors.

Because if those factors are identified then modern medicine is one step closer to prevention or a cure.

Just imagine the battle royale that would start if it was found that embryonic stem cells could cure homosexuality. The proabortion left would be fighting with the gay rights left while the pro life right would be fighting with the antihomosexual right. And there's enough overlap between those groups that people would be fighting with themselves.

11 posted on 10/26/2007 9:33:51 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (May the heirs of Charles Martel and Jan Sobieski rise up again to defend Europe.)
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Same technique can be applied any aberrant behavior as an excuse for you-name-it. The homos in Rome once bought and sold little boys they called catamites. History repeats.


12 posted on 10/26/2007 9:35:04 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot
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To: joebuck

I wonder if too much estrogen or testosterone has anything to do with it. Is that why alot of Lesbians look like guys and gay dudes can look feminine?


13 posted on 10/26/2007 9:35:10 AM PDT by Catholic Canadian ( I love Stephen Harper!)
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"Ad showing 'homosexual' newborn causes stir in Italy"

Exactly what does a homosexual newborn look like and how is one supposed to identify his or her sexual proclivity at birth?

Does the photo show this newborn in an embrace with another newborn of the eame sex?

This gay activitists, besides being morally corrupt, also appear to be complete idiots!

14 posted on 10/26/2007 9:35:48 AM PDT by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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If homosexuality is genetic then how come they havent breeded themselves out of existence?


15 posted on 10/26/2007 9:36:16 AM PDT by Havok (Portal ROCKS! - geeks know what I'm talkin' about!)
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"Sexual orientation is not a choice,"

"Tell a lie often enough, with enough conviction, and eventually people will come to accept it as truth." -- Josef Stalin

"People will always believe the Big Lie because they have a limited capacity to fathom deception on a grand scale." -- Josef Goebbels

16 posted on 10/26/2007 9:37:42 AM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: Havok

What a great question. Maybe the Darwinists can provide the elusive answer.


17 posted on 10/26/2007 9:40:09 AM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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To: agere_contra
Even if there are cases of innate homosexuality, it is an aberration of prenatal development, and not a normal variant of human characteristic. This is born out by the fact that only between 1 to 3 percent of the worlds population is homosexual. Population statistics such as these are how other abnormal characteristics, such as schizophrenia and other mental disorders, are delineated.
18 posted on 10/26/2007 9:42:52 AM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Dad of a 2nd BCT 10th Mountain Division Soldier fighting terrorists in the Triangle of Death)
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To: KarlInOhio

If there was a test to determine if the fetus is a homosexual, that whole pro-choice gang would be demanding such abortions be outlawed.


19 posted on 10/26/2007 9:43:14 AM PDT by Perchant
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To: Catholic Canadian

Old News.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1915826/posts


20 posted on 10/26/2007 9:43:16 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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