Ignazio La Russa on gay children: the reactions to the statements in Beasts

President La Russa’s statements during the “Belve” program are shaking the political, civil and social world. Phrases such as «Having a gay son would be a disappointment, just as if he were from Milan» and «Women of the right? The average aesthetic level has dropped». Words that would sound like provocations from anyone, let alone from the second state office. The unrestrained La Russa on TV shocks everyone a bit.

One of the first to react was the mayor of Florence on Twitter Dario Nardella: «I am a father of 3 children. La Russa’s words make me sad and worried about the country. As a father I would never want to have a son who is a copy of myself, but a person capable of thinking freely and conscientiously, free to love. Diversity is a value, not a limit» Followed by the indignation of Laura Boldrini, she too on social media: «La Russa goes on TV and offends thousands of people. The second office in the state that discriminates by defining ‘a regret’ to have gay children and making sexist comments about right-wing female colleagues. Indecorous statements especially for a President of the Senate”.

The reaction of the deputy Pd was very harsh Alexander Zan: «The second office of the State cannot and must not pronounce itself in such a discriminating and offensive way. Comparing a person’s sexual orientation which is something a person doesn’t choose to a football fan base I find very depressing as well as offensive. Unfortunately, the Italian right has not come to terms with the past, it is still tied to a post-fascist culture that sees rights as smoke screens. Modern European right-wingers are much more advanced. Only in Italy are rights the subject of political conflict »he declares. And he concludes: «In La Russa’s words there is homophobia but also sexism, when he says that the center-right government women are less beautiful but more competent, even if that’s enough. Said by a leading exponent of the Italian right, it is serious, if the second office of the state says so, which should be superpartes and should represent everyone, it is very serious. Should he leave? He should apologize rather than leave. Having a father who has a bust of Mussolini in the room, that’s always a disappointment».

Plus Europe on social media he addresses the president of the Senate directly: «President La Russa, having a gay child is not a displeasure at all. Displeasure is having busts of the Duce in full view and bragging about it. It is feeling nostalgic for those who eliminated political opponents, enacted racial laws, canceled all democratic freedom and deported thousands of our compatriots, some of them children, to concentration camps. It is deciding not to celebrate April 25th. It’s not loving your children for who they are and not for what you want them to be. The displeasure, Ignazio La Russa, is that it is you who inadequately represent the second office of state. We are proud and happy not to look like her.”

Even the Democratic Party is indignant: «From La Russa, unworthy sentences to Beasts: a gay son would be a displeasure, as if he were a Milan fan, I gave the bust of Mussolini to my sister and more. With these phrases he once again demonstrates his inadequacy » he says Brando Benifei on twitter.

«La Russa jokes about yesterday’s fascism, she closes her eyes to the events in Florence. You talk about women with unbearable machismo, about gays in a discriminatory way. You are not defending the duty of parliamentarians to visit prisons. If you are able, you are the President of the Senate, not the party leader ». She so she arises Walter Verini of the Democratic Party on twitter. Very hard Simon Malpezzi, president of the dem senators: – «Ignazio La Russa is not a simple political exponent (and even in these cases words in freedom should be avoided): he is the second office of the state and he must remember that as president of the Senate, even when he television, represents the institution he leads. He therefore has a duty to be serious. His words, reported by the press that anticipate his interview tonight with Beasts, are unacceptable: offensive, divisive, stereotyped, sexist. I would like to tell the president that it is not a question of being politically correct or not: it is a question of respecting the institutions that we represent and that we will continue to defend”.