"It's a question of respect...it's also morally harmful for children."

[Miles Archer]

Italian Mayor Wants To Ban PDA, Kissing Between Gay Couples
The Huffington Post | By Dominique Mosbergen



An Italian mayor said this week that he finds kissing between people of the same-sex so "morally harmful" that he wants to ban it in his municipality.

"Kissing in public between homosexuals? No thanks," Gianluca Buonanno, the mayor of the Italian municipality Borgosesia, told Italian newspaper La Repubblica, per a Huffington Post translation. "I don't like two people of the same sex making public displays of affection. It's a question of respect. And I'm convinced that it's also morally harmful for children."

La Repubblica reports that the mayor is proposing a new ordinance that would ban PDA between gay couples, who could be fined up to 500 euros for sharing a kiss on the streets of Borgosesia.

As Pink News notes, Buonanno -- who also told La Repubblica that he intends on putting up a photograph of virulently anti-gay Russian President Vladimir Putin in his office -- has a "reputation for inane stunts."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/12/gay-kissing-ban-italy-mayor_n_5579425.html

[antiquie]

1. Because fighting and shoving is more moral than kissing and loving...

[pipi_k]

2. Oh yeah...

meanwhile, heterosexual couples are fighting like cats and dogs in front of the kids, slapping and punching each other, throwing stuff around, calling each other names, and scaring the holy living shit out of the kids and that's just fine.

[CBGLuthier]

3. If he passes such a stupid ordinance I hope their town will be SWARMED by friendly affectionate

couples who will all kiss each other at every intersection. See how big a jail their town has.

Or on the other hand maybe nobody go there at all and since so much of Italy needs tourist money to survive they can dry up and blow away or get themselves a new mayor.