A Fascist Fart

Marcello PERA, President of the Italian Senate and second authority of the Italian Republic, during a meeting in Spain with the former premier Aznar, made the following comment about the new Spanish law legalizing gay marriage:

“One thing is clear: it’s false that [the new law] is about civil rights or measures against discriminations or extension of equality. Instead it’s about the triumph of that laicism that claims to transform desires – and sometimes even whims – into human rights.”

Mr PERA, a philosopher of liberalism (really this word can mean anything!), is a prominent figure of the Berlusconi’s party “Forza Italia” and is a very close friend of Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI. Pera and Ratzinger wrote together a book, whose title is “SENZA RADICI. Europa, Relativismo, Cristianesimo, Islam” (WITHOUT ROOTS. Europe, Relativism, Christianity, Islam). I didn’t (and of course I won’t) read it. But the two men have the same opinions on divorce, abortion, homosexuality, scientific research and God only knows what else.

In my region in Italy, PERA means FART. I know, put like that it’s too cheesy. So, let’s ask help to Dante.

“Ed elli avea del cul fatto trombetta” (And he had made a trumpet of his rump. ) (Inferno, XXI.139)

Well, it’s summer, time of trips and holidays. I would propose to those willing to go to Italy: don’t go. The air there really stinks these days! Go instead to Spain, to get a much cleaner and fresher breath:

"We are not legislating, honorable members, for people far away and not known by us. We are enlarging the opportunity for happiness to our neighbors, our co-workers, our friends and, our families: at the same time we are making a more decent society, because a decent society is one that does not humiliate its members." (from Spanish Premier Zapatero's remarkable gay marriage speech)