Response to controversies, the insults and fake news of those who see as smoke and mirrors the family celebration that will take place in Verona from 29 al 31 March
Of Luca Marcolivio

Together with Toni Brandi, will be the main one “Amphitryon” of the World Congress of Families, scheduled in Verona from 29 al 31 March 2019. Jacopo Coghe, 34 years, president of Generazione Famiglia, he assumed the role of vice president of the World Congress a few months ago. Generazione Famiglia and Pro Vita onlus, they formed an alliance that, in the long run, could prove successful, because it is supported from below, by common people. In the meantime, but, there is a lot of work to do and in the background there is the crucial passage of the European elections. «A Europe that does not bet on the family has no future», says Coghe, That, in conversation with Economic Scenarios, he expressed himself clearly on what is at stake.
There is less than a month left until the World Congress of Families takes place, what stage are the preparations at??
«The list of participants is now final, we are really on the home stretch. Both Generazione Famiglia and Pro Vita have accumulated a wealth of important experiences in recent years 4-5 years: many battles for family and for life have led us to march side by side on numerous occasions. Why not join forces then? The real trump card of our Congress, but, it will be the alliance we will establish with the families we meet in Verona. The participants and listeners count at least as much as the experts who will take the stage. The organization of the Congress is not an elitist club that wants to orient the people. We, on the contrary, we collect people's requests and, to be precise, of families, with whom we want to cooperate. Families who, for too many years, they feel abandoned, who are struggling more than in the past to maintain their role as the rudder and engine of society. We are sure that the three days in Verona will represent a gigantic injection of hope for us and for them. We will have to work hard but the sold out bookings for the Congress are a clear sign that we have started off on the right foot".
This event has a highly international character, thanks to the presence of representatives from all over the world and, in every part of the world, the family experiences different problems. What kind of messages will arrive from the Verona stage?
«Undoubtedly, Around the world, families experience very different situations from place to place. Many Middle Eastern families are fleeing war, the African ones suffer from hunger, Domestic violence against women and children is sadly widespread in the West. We will talk about all this in Verona but I believe that the European scenario will be, more than the others, the topic in the spotlight, also given the imminent appointment with the European elections. It is to Europe that we will send the strongest message: most of the countries of the old continent – Italy in the first place – they are suffering an unprecedented demographic crisis, to combat which we cannot limit ourselves to the palliatives of economic subsidies to families. Helping families in difficulty is a necessary but not sufficient condition, we need to recreate a true family culture, first and foremost re-establishing harmony between families, school, businesses and institutions that, for too long, appears cracked. This change cannot happen overnight but, precisely for this reason, we must act immediately. For too many years, the European Union puts the economy at the center, the banks, budget and fiscal parameters and leaves man in the background. It almost seems that the size of a tomato or cucumber produced by European companies is more important than the health and serenity of a child within his family. For about twenty years now, Instead, Europe mobilizes for families only if they are “rainbow families”… All this must stop and the politicians present in Verona, we will reiterate it without mincing words".
It is sadly known that our country has always made very little commitment to family policies. There is, on the contrary, some virtuous examples among European partners that would be worth following?
«Absolutely yes. I am thinking of various Eastern European countries, in particular to Hungary, That, with theOrban government, for some years now, is implementing demographic incentive measures and the results are visible: marriages and births are growing, Divorces and abortions are decreasing. Italy, Anyway, he will not stand by and we will take advantage of the presence of the Minister of the Family, Lorenzo Fontana, to discuss and take stock of the situation on what the government has done and what Italian families want. We have a Constitution that, to the article 29, protects the family as “natural society founded on marriage”: as representatives of civil society, we will do everything possible so that politics finally gives application to this unjustly forgotten constitutional principle". […] After two days of debates, testimonials and workshops, the Congress will end with a march towards the center of Verona. It will be something similar to the March for Life?
«In reality this final moment is not intended to be a protest march against something but rather a moment of celebration for the family. It's right for families to meet, make friends and have a happy time for everyone: mothers, Pope, children, grandparents. Obviously it will be a moment of celebration “aware”: the two days of congress will have conveyed a large amount of information, thus strengthening everyone's civic conscience regarding the invaluable social role that the family plays. We could say that the Congress itself will represent the “mind” of families, while the march will be a little’ their “Heart”: when the whole body works well, At that time, will be able to face all the difficulties and go really far".
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Luca Paci in the following article entitled “Verona, who is afraid of the natural family?” talk about the controversy, the insults and fake news about the speakers and now also the insults of Di Maio alWorld Congress for the Family. Many institutional guests, both Italians and foreigners, to talk about the rights of the family as a natural society founded on marriage: frustration for those who want the destruction of the family and see that they have less and less following.
Here is the complete article published in La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana on 14 March 2019:
Parliamentary questions, artfully spun hoaxes, counter-demonstrations, street protests, more or less veiled intimidation and the usual accusations – without a well-founded argument – of obscurantism, fascism, hatred, patriarchy and the desire for subjugation of women.
And now also the deputy prime minister Luigi Di Maio who defines them “losers”. The World Congress of Families which will be held in Verona from 29 al 31 March reignited the fire of family-phobia. The gendarmes of single thought cannot accept that thousands of delegates can gather to speak, together with important government officials, of wedding beauty, children's rights, integral human ecology and family and birth policies, moreover with the patronage of public institutions such as the Municipality of Verona, the Veneto Region and the Ministry of the Family.
The hysterical reaction of radical feminists, rainbow acronyms and of a good part of the left, however, reveals the exposed nerve of those who are starting to feel the earth crumbling beneath their feet. After many years, numerous gay prides and controversial initiatives to educate about differences have received patronage and even funding of all kinds, there are signs of a trend reversal which are not negligible. The speech by the Minister of Education Marco Bussetti, which suspended the ideological “research project on homophobic bullying” promoted by the regional school office of Umbria, it is just the latest in a series of blows received by some progressive circles who are not used to finding obstacles to the realization of their agenda. In this regard, it is also worth mentioning the full recognition of the institution of informed consent in schools and the withdrawal from the Ready Network (coordination of municipalities, provinces and regions that support pro-LGBT policies) of many local institutions.
In short, in the attack on the natural family of Cirinnà and his associates there is all the frustration of those who understood that the founding nucleus of society, composed of mother, father and sons, it is the last obstacle to overcome to give definitive shape to that model of society desired by the prophets of stateless indifferentism: without roots, without ties, without identity, a society of individuals, of consumers, where every desire can immediately turn into a right.
For this reason, the war against the patronage released by the Minister of the Family Lorenzo Fontana at the Verona Congress took on a highly symbolic value. In recent days there have been rumors and denials regarding a possible revocation of the authorization to use the logo of the Presidency of the Council in relation to the event. On Tuesday, many MPs applauded the withdrawal of patronage, then the cold shower came from Minister Fontana's staff who reported “that there is no request for revocation”. “I fell for it too, the patronage of the Council of Ministers was not withdrawn” he recognized the Democratic Party deputy the following day, Giuditta Pini, the same one who presented a parliamentary question against the event. Instead, the undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council Vincenzo Spadafora relaunches (promoter of the permanent table of LGBT associations), according to which “the general secretary of Palazzo Chigi has closed an important investigation and asked the Publishing and Family departments to withdraw their patronage”. The motion presented by Senator Monica Cirinnà and signed by the entire Dem group at Palazzo Madama also remains on the table, which is challenging “the Government to revoke any form of patronage or support for the Congress of Families”.
Some fake news was also circulated, taken up by many Italian newspapers, who claim that one of the speakers of Congress, Scott Lively, was convicted in 2017 for having facilitated the violation of human rights and the persecution of gay people in Uganda and that Lucy Akello is also expected to participate, shadow minister for social development in Uganda, That “He would like to reintroduce the death penalty for gay people” and the Nigerian Theresa Okafor, That “claims that LGBTQ+ activists are conspiring with the terrorist group Boko Haram”. All insinuations denied by those directly involved and in relation to which the organizers of the Congress have announced complaints and legal actions.
Therefore the realities that will animate the Congress respond blow for blow to every slander. “The positions of Italian families, even if constitutionally protected, are now prey to violent and absurd lies. While the controversies in the newspapers are lost in the glass of water of “logo yes logo no” granted at the World Congress of Families and on other fake news, no one tells the truth about the topics we will discuss”, Antonio Brandi and Jacopo Coghe declared in a note, president and vice-president of the XIII World Congress of Families and members of Family Day, the large street movement of families that promoted the event.
«Maybe they ignore these hoax producers – Brandi and Coghe continued – that the position of the Congress of Families is in line with the principles established by the Constitution: for example, the promotion of “rights of the family as a natural society founded on marriage”». And again, the two exponents of the pro family associations recalled that “art 37 of the Constitution speaks of the promotion of policies that ensure working women 'the same rights and, for equal work, the same wages that the worker is entitled to, and working conditions that allow 'the fulfillment of his essential family function'. Listen, listen, we also want all these protections for women, whether they choose work or stay at home. What's so horrendous and illegitimate?”.
“Last but not least, the uterus for rent – they underlined in conclusion -; it is the same Supreme Court, recently, for having reiterated the ban in our country on any practice of this kind, even if it is free and, through the Attorney General, having indicated it as 'against public order'”. The promoters of the Congress are not at all intimidated and, thanks to the full house, they confirm the speeches from beyond 70 speakers from all over the world and the presence of Salvini ministers, Bussetti and Fontana; of the President of the European Parliament Tajani; of the Governor of the Veneto Region Luca Zaia; of the mayor of Verona, Federico Sboarina and the leader of Fdi, Giorgia Meloni. Government representatives from other countries will also participate, among which stand out the President of Moldova Igor Dodon and the Hungarian Minister for the Family Katalin Novak.
However, the drumming of those who shout about returning to the Middle Ages was certainly not appreciated by the many families who will take part in the march through the streets of Verona, organized for Sunday 31 March at the close of the Congress. The best answer will be to fill Piazza Bra with mothers, dad and festive children. No political representatives will speak at the final march, but the event will feature those people who every day reconnect the deepest ties of our country, which gives continuity and hope to a frayed Italy, nihilist in the midst of demographic winter. The president of Family Day Massimo Gandolfini has relaunched an appeal aimed at all families, they will be the ones to make the difference. “No other reasons or explanations are needed – said the neurosurgeon from Brescia – to come to Verona”.

Original title: World Congress of Families, Vice President Coghe speaks: The change in Europe comes from here
Source: Economic Scenarios, 12/03/2019
Published on BastaBugie n. 604