Italy’s new government: Gay unions will continue

The leader of the right-wing party that is sharing power in Italy insists that undoing laws allowing same-sex civil unions and abortion aren’t on the agenda of the new government.

The party’s leader Matteo Salvini gave those assurances after Family Minister Lorenzo Fontana said that families headed by gay couples don’t legally exist in Italy. Fontana defined “natural” families as ones in which children have a mother and a father.