More good news from my country

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The Italian Constitutional Court, which has the power to strike down laws enacted by Parliament if they conflict with the Constitution, has struck down requests from two senior courts to, in effect, allow "gay marriage" on Constitutional grounds. Its sentence amounts in essence to saying that unless the legislative power takes on itself to pass such a reform, it is not for the judiciary power to re-read the Constitution to mean what its authors and generations of lawyers and judges of every colour had never meant it to say.

A few other countries ought to pay attention, but I guess they won't.

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Whoops! Sorry, wrong. I remembered the Prodi government passing them, but it seems I was wrong. They have been brought in by a number of regional authorities, which add up to a vast majority of the country, but the Berlusconi government is unlikely to do anything about them nationally, which is the only level that counts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recognition_of_same-sex_unions_in_Italy