00:43Italy: Thousands protest same-sex civil unions in Rome
Thousands gathered for a rally Rome, on Saturday, to protest proposals for a same-sex marriage bill which will be examined in the Italian Senate next week. If the bill is passed, Italy will shake off its status as the only major Western European country without any form of same-sex civil union or marriage.
The rally opposing this draft legislation has been titled a "Family Day" and has received the support of Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, the President of the Italian Bishops' Conference.
The bill puts forward proposals for a union would give homosexual couples many of the same rights as their heterosexual counterparts under Italian law; these rights include taking on a partner's name and, in some cases, the inheritance of a partner's residual pension.
One of the rights that this bill would permit is the adoption of a partner's child or children, which demonstrators at this rally oppose. In this footage, shot on a mobile phone, crowds gather and hold up banners such as, "Children are not a right".
00:43Thousands gathered for a rally Rome, on Saturday, to protest proposals for a same-sex marriage bill which will be examined in the Italian Senate next week. If the bill is passed, Italy will shake off its status as the only major Western European country without any form of same-sex civil union or marriage.
The rally opposing this draft legislation has been titled a "Family Day" and has received the support of Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, the President of the Italian Bishops' Conference.
The bill puts forward proposals for a union would give homosexual couples many of the same rights as their heterosexual counterparts under Italian law; these rights include taking on a partner's name and, in some cases, the inheritance of a partner's residual pension.
One of the rights that this bill would permit is the adoption of a partner's child or children, which demonstrators at this rally oppose. In this footage, shot on a mobile phone, crowds gather and hold up banners such as, "Children are not a right".