{"id":293182,"date":"2023-06-16T18:46:16","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T23:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=293182"},"modified":"2023-06-16T13:45:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T18:45:27","slug":"lgbt-vandalizes-italian-pro-life-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/lgbt-vandalizes-italian-pro-life-offices\/","title":{"rendered":"LGBT group vandalizes Italian pro-life offices, issues verbal threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An Italian pro-life group came under attack during an LGBT demonstration in Rome. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pro Vita &amp; Famiglia (Pro Life &amp; Family) <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aciprensa.com\/noticias\/asociacion-provida-italiana-denuncia-ataque-de-grupos-lgtb-a-su-sede-97893\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">condemned<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> what they described as acts of \u201cverbal violence\u201d towards their staffers, and ended in the office being vandalized. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe insults and verbal violence during last Saturday&#8217;s #Pride2023 in front of our offices and the declarations of the spokesman for the demonstration, Mario Colamarino, who called us &#8216;bastards,\u2019 generated a climate of hatred towards us so much that the our office has been defaced and vandalized with the words &#8216;Transfeminist revenge,\u2019 &#8216;free abortion,\u2019 &#8216;hanging bundles&#8217; and the throwing of eggs,\u201d Jacopo Coghe, president of the organization, tweeted, adding, \u201cWe feel sorry for those who, during the demonstration, said that we will no longer reopen the headquarters, but instead we are open and operational as every start of the week and as always.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He added, \u201cWe will not be intimidated and will continue our actions in defense of Life, the family, educational freedom and children.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"it\" dir=\"ltr\">Gli insulti \u00e8 la violenza verbale durante il <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Pride2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Pride2023<\/a> di sabato scorso davanti alla nostra sede e le dichiarazoni del portavoce della manifestazione, Mario Colamarino, che ci ha dato dei \u2018bastardi\u2019, hanno generato un clima di odio nei nostri confronti tanto che la nostra sede \u00e8\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/utSYv8aJwO\">pic.twitter.com\/utSYv8aJwO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jacopo Coghe (@jacopocoghe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacopocoghe\/status\/1668185151011004416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In an interview with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilquotidianodellazio.it\/portavoce-roma-pride-ho-urlato-pro-vita-bastardi-siamo-un-milione-mai-vista-tanta-gente.html#:~:text=Siamo%20un%20milione%2C%20mai%20vista%20tanta%20gente,-di%20Redazione&amp;text=%E2%80%9CSono%20senza%20voce%20perch%C3%A9%20ho,Regione%20Lazio%20siamo%20tutti%20qua%E2%80%9D.\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">local news outlets<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Colamarino bragged about the number of people involved in the Pride demonstration, and specifically criticized local politicians for aligning with the pro-life movement. &#8220;You know where you can put an apology,\u201d Colamarino said, in reference to pro-life politicians, such as Francesco Rocca, who had demanded an apology from the LGBT group. \u201cThe right in this region is in the hands of pro-lifers. They order and politics execute. If anything, Rocca is the one who has to apologize.&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Colamarino further said, in a somewhat ominous message, &#8220;Today we take back the squares that we usually live in fear, being insulted, feeling observed and with fear. Today this city is ours.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though Colamarino\u2019s LGBT group was able to \u201ctake the square\u201d and live without fear, they did so by putting fear into others \u2013 and their rhetoric culminated in an act of vandalism against a group that has worked to help Italian women and their children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/give.liveaction.org\/general-donation\/?utm_source=lan&amp;utm_medium=display&amp;utm_campaign=monthly&amp;utm_content=article\"><i><strong>Did you know that as little as $10 a month is enough to reach more than 3,000 people with the truth about abortion that no one else is telling them? Click here to start saving lives 365 days a year.<\/strong><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Italian pro-life group came under attack during an LGBT demonstration in Rome. Pro Vita &amp; Famiglia (Pro Life &amp; Family) condemned what they described as acts of \u201cverbal violence\u201d towards their staffers, and ended in the office being vandalized. \u201cThe insults and verbal violence during last Saturday&#8217;s #Pride2023 in front of our offices and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":293211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[2793,3473],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>LGBT group vandalizes Italian pro-life offices, issues verbal threats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The group vandalized a center that exists to help Italian women, children, and families during #Pride 2023, led by Mario Colamarino.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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