Minister removed for gay remark
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May 5, 2013, Sunday
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A JUNIOR Italian equal opportunities minister was removed from her post yesterday, less than 24 hours after being sworn in to the new coalition government, after she said gays invited discrimination by "ghettoising" themselves.
The abrupt departure of Michaela Biancofiore to another ministry was a fresh reminder of just how delicate Prime Minister Enrico Letta's fledgling left-right coalition is.
Gay rights groups protested on Friday after Biancofiore, a parliamentarian from former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right People of Freedom party (PDL), was made an undersecretary in the equal opportunities ministry.
They accused her of having made comments they considered homophobic, a charge she denied.
Responding to the criticism, she told Italian newspapers: "For once, I would like to see gay associations, instead of 'ghettoising' themselves ..."
The abrupt departure of Michaela Biancofiore to another ministry was a fresh reminder of just how delicate Prime Minister Enrico Letta's fledgling left-right coalition is.
Gay rights groups protested on Friday after Biancofiore, a parliamentarian from former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right People of Freedom party (PDL), was made an undersecretary in the equal opportunities ministry.
They accused her of having made comments they considered homophobic, a charge she denied.
Responding to the criticism, she told Italian newspapers: "For once, I would like to see gay associations, instead of 'ghettoising' themselves ..."
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