“How can you not call this love?” tweeted Roman Mayor Ignazio Marino Saturday as he transcribed the marriages of 16 same-sex couples.
Rome's Mayor Ignazio Marino became the latest city leader to record the marriages of same-sex couples performed abroad, violating a pronouncement by Italian Interior Minister Angelino Alfano that doing so is a violation of Italian law.
Sixteen couples had their marriages transcribed on Saturday. In recording their Unions, Marino is following the lead of the mayors of cities including Milan and Naples, who have also gone against Alfano's pronouncement. It also comes as Catholic Church leaders meeting in Vatican City retreated from draft language on "welcoming homosexual persons" in a declaration on the family.