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I propose the following article posted in recent days to the newspaper story of Benedict XVI in Africa, which has given so much to talk about the many "wise" and "responsible" politicians of our time.

It takes a really brave! Go in Africa where AIDS kills every day, where thousands of people die of hunger and thirst, where the guerrillas are ethnic massacres and violence of every kind, and start to talk about condoms. And then to say what? I'm not the best weapon to fight AIDS. "But on what planet is this?" I asked yesterday a girl of 18 years.

A spontaneous reaction and its understandable, but also rushed. Similar to that, certainly less naive, the media and many politicians these days do not expect more than a pretext to harass the pope. Maybe even pulling dance alleged differences with the "poor" John Paul II, who surely will must be turning in his grave because in many official documents, wrote exactly the same things. Ratzinger's words it is good to read from the Vatican Information Service, trusted source for official: "I would say that you can not overcome this problem only with AIDS slogans. If there is no soul, if Africans do not help, you can not solve the scourge with the distribution of condoms on the contrary, the risk worsening the problem. The solution can only be in a two-fold commitment: first, a humanization of sexuality, as a human and spiritual renewal that brings with it a new way of behaving with each other, and second, a true friendship also and especially with the suffering people, the availability, even with sacrifice, personal sacrifice, to be with the suffering. "

words very different from so many headlines these days fired. But leaving aside, for once, the usual ballet media (which speaks for itself), I would try to understand, however, where Benedict will find the courage to say and do things like that. Of course, after discarding, and it seems reasonable that the hypothesis could be simply crazy. "One dare not if it gives itself" Manzoni said. And then, where he, Ratzinger, the courage to speak ill of condoms in places where AIDS makes millions of deaths?

I think the reasons could be summarized in two main ones, in some way inclusive of many others. The first element of courage comes from what is commonly called "the Church's presence." And for millions of Africans do not have the cruel faces of the Republic that Ratzinger chose to art for his photos, but the authentic and generous of thousands of Christians in those lands are really the face of AIDS. I speak of the many Catholic movements, from the Caritas Community of Sant'Egidio, dall'Avsi of Communion and Liberation, Opus Dei. In short, people who looks at the heart of the AIDS problem far more than they do the promoters of advertising campaigns, politicians or commentators on their comfy sofas. Well, that people move to the same ideal of the pope, the same hope of faith is worth helping a man suffering from AIDS and stand by him in pain. When the pope speaks of AIDS, therefore, speaks for his father and representative of who does all of those "mixed" with AIDS so far. The Africans know and they know be grateful, as evidenced by the extraordinary hospitality of those days.

Alongside this first certainty, there is one second. And it is perhaps the most difficult aspect of the Church that goes down, even to many Catholics. It 's the fact that the Church is so determined to not detach any concrete help from the work of an attempt to change the mentality. A Never disconnect dall'umanizzazione humanitarianism. Or to put it in a way more pleasing to me, the commitment to social and educational. To do this you need to make judgments about what is more humanized, including in relation to sex life.

The thing will not please many, but it is precisely in these terms: the Church does not engage in social simply because it is a good thing and that's it. This, if anything, is why all the rich of the West make a minimum of solidarity to get a clear conscience.

The Church helps people because it has the idea of \u200b\u200bman as something great, beautiful, extraordinary. In any social situation you are, whatever his skin color. And (this is really angry, 'more), whatever his state of health. In short, a love of life that is not afraid to be radical. For this will never give up, I hope, to say that sexuality is an exceptional gift in which to play the human life and should not be treated as mere objects of pleasure. For this will never give an opinion on what he considers more human.

How good a Pope as well. His courage confirms me in the way that I have encountered Christianity in the classroom, through men who have always challenged me thus: "You be the judge, what is more real and more human." On all aspects of life, from education to politics, from family relationships to sexuality. Always to the end. "Because the man - I was told - is done to get to the bottom, without cowardice, without always be with your backs up, like Don abundance." In short, always with the "condom".

And that invitation to judge "the way" if they accompanied another equally fascinating: "Never be afraid to say publicly that you (and never one for you) you feel is most true and human. No problem to say the easiest thing and correct what the prevailing mentality (today more and more feel-good) deems acceptable. " This courage it took him often, and it takes still under the fire of criticism more conformist. That same conformist criticism that today the Pope is not afraid to pull him saying so many things that appear "out of this world." I just got a pope like this: makes me want to never remain silent in their corner.

Pino Suriano

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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.

Pino Suriano

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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?

Pino Suriano - from newspaper Basilicata