No patronage at Gay Pride, it is a divisive demonstration and therefore should not be supported".
Governor Attilio Fontana does not intend to grant the regional logo to the rainbow parade scheduled for 30 June in Milan, he confirmed this in an interview published yesterday by the Lettera43 website.
It is the line that he also followed in Varese, where he was mayor for two terms. «I am heterosexual, but it's not like I'm making a demonstration to accredit my heterosexuality. Choices in this field must remain personal, flaunting them is wrong. Gay Pride is divisive and when demonstrations are divisive they should never be supported". Instead, it intends to confirm the choice of former president Roberto Maroni who on the eve of the march against the law on civil unions (the Cirinnà bill) In the 2016 lit up the Pirellone with the words «Family Day».
«We'll do it again –assures Fontana -, that is not a divisive choice, it is a political choice. Everyone recognizes the value of family. It's in the Constitution, it is one of the foundations of our civilization and is one of the main points of reference of the program of the previous administration and this one". Words that infuriate the Democratic Party Monica Cirinnà, signatory of the decree on civil unions: «Lombardy in the Middle Ages of rights thanks to Fontana. And this would be the most advanced part of the country?». Applause for the Northern League governor from the centre-right exponents, the left and gay associations rebel. And the distant back-and-forth between Fontana and the mayor on the refugee issue continued yesterday. The president specified that the hypothesis of prizes for municipalities that are not accepting for now «is a proposal from councilor De Corato, we will evaluate it. But with Sala we think in a diametrically opposite way". And the mayor replies: «The prefect represents the law and what the mayors must accept».
Source: http://m.ilgiornale.it/news/2018/04/13/fontana-sceglie-no-al-gay-pride-si-al-family-day-sinistra-infuriata/1515030/