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Axios: Vatican protests proposed Italian law criminalizing LGBT hate speech

By Axios.

Published June 23, 2021. Updated June 23 at 6:36 am

Participants march under a large rainbow-coloured flag during the Warsaw Gay Pride parade in central Warsaw on June 19, 2021. - Gay rights have become a flashpoint issue in Poland in recent years under the governing right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party, which campaigns against what it calls "LGBT ideology", likening the promotion of gay rights to a form of communism. (Photo by Wojtek Radwanski / AFP)

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The Vatican has formally voiced its opposition to a drafted Italian law that would expand protections for LGBT people as well as women and people with disabilities, Reuters reported Tuesday.