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Report: Vatican urges Italy to block anti-homophobia law
By EUobserver
Italy should block a bill criminalising homophobic and misogynistic hate speech and violence because it harmed "freedom of thought" among Roman Catholics, the Vatican said in a confidential "note verbale" to Italy's embassy in the Holy See, according to Italian daily Corriere della Sera. The unprecedented intervention comes as the law, tabled by a gay centre-left MP, is to be ratified by the senate after having passed the lower house.