If you call a spade a spade, please call a family a family

I have just spent three months in Italy, where I have enjoyed very much listening to people's conversations about a number of issues, including gay marriage.  Which, for the record, is not on the table in my country, unless you consider a signature on a register that gives half the rights of a heterosexual marriage, …

Standing sentinels, please get out of our pants!

"Sentinelle in piedi", standing sentinels.  It's an Italian movement that in the past five months -since talks of a new law on gay unions came out- has brought thousands of people into Italy's squares to protest silently against said law.  These people basically meet, open a book in silence and light a candle by their feet, then …