by Rex Wockner
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Feb. 26, "As long as we are in power, traditional marriage and gay unions will never be on the same level."
The national LGBT group Arcigay denounced the remark as "another ruthless use of homosexuals and transsexuals' lives and feelings with the sole objective of restoring the alliance with the Catholic electorate, disgusted by months of sexual scandals."
"The prime minister should look around and tell us which countries are treating LGBT people like he does," said the group's president, Paolo Patane. "Maybe he will find out that this does not happen anywhere in the civilized world."
