Malan, still controversy over words against gays. Northern League supporter Freni: “It’s bad faith or ignorance, I’ve gotten blisters”

The controversy over the words of Senator Lucio Malan spoken yesterday, in dialogue with Rai Radio 1, on civil unions and LGBT rights continues. “In the Bible it is written that homosexuality is an abomination, both in the Old and in the New Testament”, said among other things the group leader of FdI who then tried to clarify, but did not hold back the criticisms.

Calenda to Meloni: “In a western country they would have removed it”

Action leader Charles Calenda return to the topic. “In any western country, the party secretary would have already removed Malan from the role of group leader. We look forward to it”, he wrote on Twitter, addressing the premier directly Giorgia Meloni.

From Arcigay comments the honorary president Franco Grillini. “We should be careful of what people say, of the metaphors they use, because belated reversals on statements that in any case remain on the ground and are profoundly offensive to the LGBT+ community are not enough”. A controversy which, for Grillini, finds its basis in an anachronistic thought. “In Leviticus – he points out – there are an avalanche of totally obsolete prescriptions, such as the death sentence for those who eat crustaceans or those who go hunting. Did Malan perhaps stop at 2,500 years ago?”.

After calling Malan’s words “the reason why I’m in Action and no longer with you”, Mara Carfagna reopens the question, after Malan himself has criticized his words. “The difference with the declarations of the senator of the Brothers of Italy on the subject of homosexuality is that I already reviewed my positions ten years ago, admitting that I had been misled by a prejudice”, declares Carfagna. “He is still holding on to a curse from two thousand years ago,” affirms the new president of Azione.

Majority, Freni: “I got bubbles at his words”

From the same majority come critical words against the senator. Federico Freniparliamentarian of the League and undersecretary at the Ministry of Economy, declared in Agorà: “I got bubbles listening to Malan, because to whoever in a completely improper way – or in bad faith or out of ignorance – quotes the scriptures, I reply peacefully with the same scriptures quoting John: ‘God is love, he who loves knows God and this is enough’. I think it is the best answer to the nonsense he said”.