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An interesting dialogue via email with Dominic Leaver, director of Piuvoce.net
I had an interesting Q & Domenico Leaves, former editor in chief and spokesman of the Future Movement and the Life Science and general coordinator of Family Day celebrated in the spring of 2007.
I made out with an email that seemed unreasonable to the moralistic tone of his remarks, hostile to me for free, at a dinner held in the villa of lawyer Beppino Englaro.
Here you can read his comment. Here my letter and his response , published on PiuVoce.net, of which he is director.
place the following remarks published yesterday in the newspaper of Basilicata. The value of the facts is something very dear to me. Where fattisono challenged and ideas take the upper hand, begins the "dictatorship", that is political or cultural.
kicks off this evening, the 59th edition of the Sanremo Festival. It will be the festival Bonolis and return to Mina, but I remember him also as the Festival of Gianni Pittella. What the hell has to do with our MEP Lucan the Sanremo Festival, they will ask the readers? Legitimate question. And indeed that is the same place when I too, between disbelief and dismay, I read the letter to President Petruccioli Rai, of which the newspaper broke the news in recent weeks (click here to read ).
topic of the letter is the now famous song Povia, "When Luke was gay, "dall'Arcigay indictment for his alleged homophobic content. As head of the Italian delegation of the PES, Pittella opens the letter with a hint of calmness and respect for the roles: " Obviously it is not my intention in any way interfere with freedom of expression, much less with the artistic ...". Soon thereafter, however, comes the trip in style soft dictatorship " However, I am concerned that is a great opportunity to use culture and music, especially through public service broadcasting, to spread the idea that 'homosexuality is a disease, a vision of racist and homophobic that the community science has stopped, after World War II, to accredit and which has no place in the cultural and political debate of any civilized country. I want to remember that sexual orientation is not a disease nor a choice . Then the conclusion, with a substantial list of European laws to demonstrate the merits of the case supported.
I think it's interesting to show the risks and contradictions of such a stance. The first contradiction can understand the children. And 'that between the premise and purpose of a text. That is if I, as Pittella, "I will not interfere with freedom of expression ..." I'm going to write letters the Presidents of RAI to know my personal concerns. " I mean mine on a question of values? I make a great press release on a personal basis and the spreads on agency and newspapers. But do not let me, writing letters to those who have the responsibility of a public service to "interfere" (appunto!) in the work of others. It would be desirable, therefore, that you avoid certain assumptions so obviously false.
But this is not to correct formal lessons Pittella I write, and for a clear opinion on the role of politics and his growing disdain for the constant value for all recognized words, freedom of thought and expression. Yes, it is precisely because of this that it is here. It seems to me that on the basis of this principle shared, no one would afford, and rightly, to restrict freedom of expression for a homosexual, his opportunity to assert and express their choices in life. No one can stop him from telling his story in a book or a song, and try to defend his dignified choice related to sexuality. And no, I think, has the right to feel offended by these statements even when they are done in public space.
With a minimum of perfect consistency, however, we should agree on the fact that others have the same right. Even those who have had the opposite experience. The experience of change, the transition Dall'Omo heterosexuality, which is involved in song Povia. They too should be able to talk and be talked with the same dose of pride, dignity and gratitude for those who helped them. Interpret the story in its affairs as an offense to homosexuality seems genuinely disrespectful. What would those who have become straight, the morons who do not accept are known, idiots who have lost time to take care of something that is not a disease? I prefer to say (and also applies to homosexuals) who are men who have made a choice to be respected, and if you gentlemen allow, even to tell. Through the newspapers and all forms of art that I would like, including songs in Sanremo. Their stories are true, that happened, there still as stone.
Yes, stories like that of Luca Di Tolve. It would be inspired by his story, according to Arcigay, the song of Povia. And 'one of the youths, with the help of psychology, has been able to satisfy the desire of having transformed his sexual orientation and now strives to help others to do the same. In recent weeks, the ones who call themselves tolerant demonstrated in protest in front of the parish in which organized Luca a simple and innocent moment of prayer. And in those days he has told everyone on time, weekly, directed by Luigi Amicone, where he simply told the facts (c Licca here to read the whole article) . Are a few excerpts that may like or not, but they are made, tough and less malleable ideas.
"I left home at eighteen - Luca said at times - and went into a colorful, fascinating, full of people outgoing, friendly and casual. I began to attend a guy with a few years older than me, to turn to nightclubs and parties. I became a dancer in a nightclub for homosexuals. [...] In the first I was very happy times of my life. Yet, in the evening, when they got home, I felt like a shadow of sadness. I felt alone, I missed something in it. And when I looked into the eyes of my teammates saw the same shadow. But he admitted no one, no one was saying. Recognize it is a painful tear. [...] But in the meantime I continued my life of dissipation between the party of the city, attending important people in Milan, well, I had contacts in the world of high fashion. Yet I was increasingly dissatisfied. If sex is all that when it ends, it's all over. [...] Came the nineties and came AIDS. I saw friends die, especially seeing as they were fragile relations among us. When one is ill, his companion fled. It has killed the loneliness of the virus. [...] I did check and risultai HIV-positive. They are literally crazy. The illness forced me to drop everything: the apartment in the center, work, money. Yet today I say that my illness was my saving grace, because I had to re-float the questions that roam in those years had subsided but not off [...] Hence the return to the Catholic faith. It was a very confused, but I believed I had found something in which to confide. Never went out of the house except to go to mass. I confessed, I began to work as a salesman, I, who until shortly before giving orders two secretaries. One day I found among the papers of a friend of such notes on a Joseph Nicolosi, a Catholic American psychologist known for its restorative theory to which I entrusted [...] The most beautiful was the discovery that, as established relationships Friendship with men, my homosexual impulses disappeared. That is, as my relationships become real, genuine, not superficial, I learned not to feel constantly inferior to other males [...] The first time I found myself doing the heavy hints about a colleague has been for me a situation incredible, absurd, joyous [...]. Then an encounter with clear air, during a pilgrimage to Medjugorje. I was having fun with her, I liked it, we got engaged. I did not know how ... In short, in the end I told him. What he told me everything about her says: "Luke, what you have is no more. Matter what you are now. " After a year of engagement we were married. Now I live in rent, I have the most beautiful cars of the past, I do not mind me advertising. I only ask to say what I believe. "
What I reported is a brief account of facts and experiences that make me think very sincerely. And maybe worth more than many theoretical and abstract principles, which they propose the Church, the European Union or even the Almighty. Principles and ideas that Pittella and others (MEP Agnoletto think that the story has even made a search in the European Parliament) have expressed, however, as a general preventive and before the rumors Arcigay on offensive lyrics were actually verified .
I suspect at this point rather well founded, that oppose the ideas of the facts can do much more. Perhaps to ingratiate himself with the sympathy of groups of people who are beginning to be rather large? Homosexuals, in fact, vote, often because of those who defend their civil rights (as it should be) and, similarly, vote for those who defend them from injuries received or fake ones. The European elections, moreover, are very close. Pittella's candidacy as well. Of course, now, that has to do with the Festival of Sanremo Pittella?
almost never place newspaper articles. I want to do that today with the interview of the singer Roger Whittaker, issued to Corriere della Sera on the case of Eluana. I was struck by the disarming simplicity of his views, their reasonableness. No great metaphysical reasoning, only simple and obvious reason that we risk not see more.
LONDON - It would take a caress of the Nazarene, "he says at one point, and is by no means a sentence thrown out, his voice is not even a thread of irony that makes it unique for fifty years his songs. Faced with Eluana and who is in her condition - "people live only in appearance, but he lives" - Roger Whittaker, "secular atheist very imprudent," calls the Christ because he, as a doctor, feels just raise their arms, " Never pull a plug, not the power to suspend a patient to end a life is brutal and shocking. "
It holds true even in against anyone who has spent seventeen years in a vegetative state? "There are so many, I know, but they are worth to us, and we know nothing of how they lived by a person in coma vigil. Nobody can enter their sleep and tell us what is really mysterious, so it's not just measure it by the time of our clocks. That is why it is always worth waiting for, when and if the time comes, the patient's cells will die by themselves. And then we must not forget that medicine is a wonderful thing, capable of making extraordinary progress and unexpected. "
But once the brain is no longer activated, the wait is not likely to be useless? "Piano, piano ... useless? Brain dead? We use these expressions too lightly. If it were my son, it only takes one beat of the lashes to make me feel alive. Not bear the thought of not more potergli be close. "
are reflections of a parent or a doctor? "I as a physician I speak exactly like this: life is always important, not only when it is attractive and exciting, but even if there is helpless and defenseless. Existence is a space that gave us and that we must fill with meaning, anyway. Deciding to stop at a hospital is not how to do a tracheotomy ...».
what it feels like to tell Beppino Englaro? "We must be very close to this father."
not think that there may be situations where a person has the right to anticipate his own death? "Yes, when the patient is suffering terribly and the medicine can no longer relieve pain. But even then I never want to be me having to "pull a plug: I am a coward and I am confident that there are doctors braver than me."
how to tackle a sick patient who does not believe its more dignified existence? "I would try to convince him that dignity does not depend on their health but it is the courage with which we deal fate. And then I would say to his family and his friends around him who feel lonely surrenders first. I speak from experience: I know decides to wonderful guys who manage to live, to love and be loved even if they are aged on a bed or a wheelchair. "
Forty years ago felt the same way? "At the end of the sixties I went to specialize in cardiac surgery in the United States. In department scolded me: "She falls in love with patient goes to see them too often and is interested in things that have nothing to do with treatment: doctors are technicians, throughout the rest of us are psychologists and priests." They decided to send me to work in intensive care, "so may want to hang on to them until "... behold, stay where life is reduced to a thin wire is traumatic, but can teach many things to a doctor. There is also another, though."
What? "In recent years the figure of Christ has become for me fundamental: it is the thought of her in order to make it impossible to cross even the idea of \u200b\u200bhelping someone to die. If you return the Nazarene it would take to slap them all. We deserve it, all right, but we need so much of a caress. "
Recently I often think of the great expectations that has been created around the figure Obama. And I often think that if this happens, people do not really have anything to hope for. Not that his "tan" it makes me dislike (anzi..) But I think he is thinking to herself often, " but they have realized that I am a man, not a god? . Perhaps he who has reached the maximum, can understand where it stops a man.
The auto market is in crisis! We bought 32% less than last year. Everybody cries. Yet it's not bad if we are stopping to buy a car for each family, dog included. This mega crisis could give us a gift: let us understand that not everything is essential. I, of course, I bought the car shortly before the aid of state. Okay .. the usual bad luck.
