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One of the reasons that led me to choose London over other cities was that homosexuals could contract regular civil marriages here.

I am in favour of both marriage and adoption by homosexual couples for a straightforward reason: for me, all citizens must have equal duties and equal rights.

The article of the Constitution that I know best and have always fully supported is number 3:

All citizens have equal social dignity and are equal before the law, without distinction of sex, race, language, religion, political opinion, personal and social conditions.

It is the task of the Republic to remove those obstacles of an economic and social nature, which, by effectively limiting the freedom and equality of citizens, prevent the full development of the human person and the effective participation of all workers in the political, economic and social organisation of the country.

The Italian Republic has so far failed to comply with the principles of its own Constitution*.

And honestly, since it was a matter of making a life choice, I consciously chose a country where this principle was respected instead.

What I did not expect, although I had guessed it, is how civilised and simple the rules that generally govern marriage, and any other kind of union, are.

I was inquisitive, because of an article that mentioned it, to see how marriage was regulated in the case of a European immigrant, and what I discovered was that to get married in Italy as a foreign resident, one has to make the banns at the consulate at least six months beforehand, to do it in England 28 days, which is the same time as for British citizens.

I don’t want to know why the six months spent at the consulate, but wanting to get married, it is obvious which is the easier choice.

*it hurts a lot to say it, but that’s how it is; there’s no point in dancing around it. The civil unions promised lately are no help at all: until everyone can marry, as far as I am concerned, there will be no absolute equality.

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