DICO: a problem that the first civil religious

Since it was struck and I believe offers many insights for all, I will quote the whole article published ZENIT on February 24 last year on a speech given by Cardinal Ersilio Tonini, which has as its central theme the issue of DICO / PACS:

Opposing the legalization of de facto unions and their equal to natural marriage between a man and a woman is a gesture that the first civil religious, said Cardinal Ersilio Tonini, archbishop emeritus of Ravenna-Cervia.
So said the prelate on the draft law on de facto unions, called DICO (Rights and obligations of people living permanently), during the press conference of presentation of the celebrations for the centenary of scouting, held February 21 in Rome at the headquarters of Vatican Radio €?.
From now Cardinal held to emphasize that "we are faced with a big misunderstanding, guarded and maintained in all modes €? and that the draft law presented "is much more serious of the French PACS €?.
"The couple, which seems in fact the word more innocent world, is the formula that covers everything. And it is from here that also led to the misunderstanding €?, Stressed.
However he then stated: "It is one with the couple husband and wife and an account is the couple homosexual or unmarried. Not only from an ethical point of view but also from a legal point of view and the good of the State is clear that two things are infinitely different €?.
In this regard, he added "there is a misunderstanding that should be clarified forever: the theme of the family was not born with the Church. Nell'Eneide, nell'Iliade, nell'Odissea there is always the reference to family €?.
"Here the speech is whether the marriage is a civil or not? But at the State interested or not interested in that there is a family where children grow and receive an education? €?, He asked.
Here, then noted that "it is not true at all that a PACS or opposition to this new order is a gesture of faith. And there is no need to enter into crisis, the Bindi or enter into the various crises Catholics €?.
"The problem is not religious but civil. At the State interested or not interested in that there is a family? €?, He asked again.
Later the cardinal has referred to some passages contained in the "Lessons of Ethics €? of Immanuel Kant, where they are treated crimina carnis, offences against the body.
Here, the Cardinal continued to paraphrase the words of the philosopher, argued that "the sexual relationship is more than legitimate between man and woman in marriage and is no longer a relationship only bodies, but assumes a human dignity and spiritual, where next the relationship between the body's commitment to live together, devote themselves to life and prepare for a tomorrow in childcare €?.
"The family is the most essential of a people €? Said Cardinal Tonini.
"This is much more serious suicide, said Kant. We talk about humiliation. We sodomy. Nobody had the courage to pronounce that word. But then, why you want to cover everything suddenly '€?, He said.
"I say once and for all that we ask what kind of family we want and if we want a family where a man and a woman put together to generate or not €?, He exclaimed.
"I do not want to exaggerate, but I say that this is one of the most delicate of the Church's life because here injures the central point, where life was born, where worship is born, where comes the wonder, wonder, where man Takes meaningless € ", he concluded.