Italian authorities want to punish schools that cancel Christmas performances and symbols
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Italy's Brothers of Italy party, led by Prime Minister Maloni, has proposed a bill that would penalize schools for banning Christmas symbols in order to preserve cultural roots. The opposition criticizes it as politicizing religion.
The ruling Italian party "Brothers of Italy has submitted a bill to protect the country's "cultural roots" of the country - school nativity scenes. This is reported by The Guardian, UNN writes .
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According to the party, which is led by Prime Minister Georgia Maloney, the move is "absolutely necessary to preserve and protecting cultural roots, of which the vertep is an example."
For several years now, we have been witnessing unacceptable and shameful decisions by some schools that ban nativity scenes or change the deep essence of Christmas, turning it into an incredible winter holiday so as not to offend the faithful of other religions,
It is noted that the bill on the nativity scene speaks of "absolutely unacceptable" decision of some schools to "rebrand Christmas" as a winter holiday. as a winter holiday. This has allegedly resulted in "the holiday being stripped of any historical and cultural context associated with our nation, and which, without having any ethical content, is doomed to acquire a purely hedonistic consumerist shade".
Allowing the transformation of sacred Christian celebrations into yet another anonymous type of celebration would discriminate against students and their families who practice the majority religion,
If the new law is adopted, principals of of schools who remove nativity scenes from educational institutions will be subject to to disciplinary action.
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The proposal was immediately criticized by by the opposition political forces, who described it as another attempt by Maloney's party to use religion for political purposes.
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