I say: good, bad or do not?
When this morning I thought I would write a piece for our internal newsletter, I plan to do a song totally different from what will come out, because I felt it right not to deal with a political issue (for the umpteenth time, someone say) and of wanting to occupy a more spiritual side.
Eventually, though, reading newspapers, watching news, I decided this week and I thought I should write about something I say (the Italian law, who knows if anything will be approved, should be recognized by only one point of view and do not master legislation, unmarried couples). In fact, I do so reluctantly for several reasons: first, because I do not think that it is not an expert on ethics (despite being a philosopher) and I can sometimes understand all the implications of a choice like this, and secondly, because the political controversy rages on an issue that will most likely not pass in this legislative term in Parliament. But in the end, something must be said. Position that we must have regard to this bill done by our government but that, as repeatedly stated, is not part of the same priorities?
will try to do a series of reflections on this issue. First, the Italian company, compared to 50 years ago, has changed dramatically and the State sometimes must adapt its laws to the situation. Today, in Italy, people who cohabit are nearly the same percentage of those who contract marriage. We live, despite all the shakes, in a welfare state, we must ensure that these people can take advantage of other benefits that the state gives to society? I think so and, therefore, from a political point of view that I can not but be favorable to regulation of this situation is increasingly present in our state.
From the moral standpoint that mean? Since I came to Bari to teach and, especially, since I teach at the Liceo Classico, I discovered that the number of families who have broken the marriage bond is very high: in my classes at least 40% of alunnoi come from divorced families. The effects on children are psychological and disasters I see before my eyes every day. We are confident that accept the existence of de facto couples does not support this social disaster is increasingly present in our society? From this point of view, the proposed legislation makes me doubt, since it almost seems that the State lends credence to the fact that you can live in a state of dysfunctional families and children injured or deeply complex.
From a social perspective? Italy is the country with one of the lowest birth rate in the world. The legislator was asked why are more children in France, Germany, USA. We are therefore confident that our company is not in need of improving the family, to protect it as stated in the Constitution, rather than developing other laws that do not solve the problem of a nation growing old and demotivated?
is theology? Here the question becomes more complex. From a theological point of view it must be said this:
1. It's not up to churches to tell the politicians how it should behave. If, as the Catholic Church which still thinks of being the majority, we formed the consciences of our politicians do not have to threaten them with documents that appear to injunctive documents, such as the pastoral note that the CEI has made public in recent days;
2. Admittedly (and this I agree with the Waldensian theologian E. Genre) that marriage, in Scripture, seems to be more natural for a sacred bond. In the Scriptures we never hear of a religious ceremony, but it certainly gives attention to the family and the enduring bond of solidarity and to be drawn into it;
3. E 'can, therefore, that there are different views on the subject that do not undermine the biblical truth, but interpret it and, without a doubt, there is no clear answer from the Bible than that of the sentence (this is clear) unions homosexuals, but not those relating to de facto heterosexual couples;
In conclusion, therefore, the believer must act according to the Gospel conscience, trying to make a complex and simplistic reasoning and thinking, as unfortunately sometimes seems to Evangelical Alliance in Italy, that there is a unique opinion on the subject.
