Gianni Piana e lo scandalo di una proposta etica sull’omosessualità
Articoli di Gino Scarpelli e Giulia Masieri del gruppo Kairos di Firenze pubblicati su Tempi di Fraternità del giugno-luglio 2013
Giannino Piana, che, lo scorso 11 marzo (2013), a Firenze, ha tenuto una conferenza sul suo libro “Omosessualità: una proposta etica” (Editore Cittadella, 2010, 112 pagine), è docente di Etica ed Economia presso la Facoltà di Scienze Politiche dell’Università di Torino. In questo breve saggio, egli pone l’accento sulle considerazioni negative della cultura ebraico-cristiana nei confronti dell’omosessualità, che si sono tramandate nel corso dei secoli e permangono tuttora.
L’autore delinea, inoltre, il processo di sviluppo della teologia, iniziato dalla metà del Novecento: infatti, molti teologi hanno reinterpretato, in maniera più critica e alla luce di conoscenze sempre più ampie ed evolute, i passi della Bibbia presi come riferimento dalla tradizione morale cristiana e, in seguito, dal Magistero della chiesa cattolica, per condannare l’omosessualità e giudicarla come peccato.
Despite the progress of biblical studies and natural and human sciences, for which homosexuality does not represent at all a moral "evil", much less a deviance, or a psycho-physical disorder, the doctrine of the Catholic Church continues to attribute it to the sentences of condemnation, as it is not aimed at procreation. According to the official teaching of the catechism, the love between two people of the same sex is not conceivable in divine design, which can be manifested in a heterosexual couple.
In this regard, Professor Piana contrasts with the naturalistic criterion, traditionally recognized as the only tool to evaluate the homosexual identity, the personalistic one, which enhances the human person, as being in relationship with others. This interpretative model can therefore be called relational and reiterates that the identity of the individual and therefore also its sexual orientation is formed and consolidated only through its relationship with the community.
The meeting was very constructive, both for the clarity in the exposure of the theme, and for the subsequent dialogue, from which interesting food for thought emerged, also of a sociological nature.
Below, like a lightning bolt, our friend Giulia remained shocked by the letter that a girl with angelic smile delivered her to the exit of the Evangelical Church where the conference was held. The sender is a religious group convinced that homosexuality is a condition contrary to the love of God. It therefore overturns the ethical analysis of Piana.
Why does this movement claim to teach us what love is? Are we not homosexuals capable of loving? Do we have to dismantle our subjective reality and pretend to be who we are not? Yet, we too believe in Christ, we are looking for it and we know that it is with us when we get together in his name, without denying our homosexuality, without deprived us of the opportunity that we are given to form a couple, a family and to extend our love towards others. Is this a shame?
Your words hurt me, like lesbian and as a christian
Open letter from Giulia Masieri of the Kairos Group of Florence
Some time ago I participated in Florence, together with the Kairos group I am part of, in the presentation of the book "Homosexuality, an ethical proposal" by Prof Giannino Piana. It was a very interesting encounter, especially for the depth and humanity with which the themes were treated so dear to me, who touch me closely, being a Christian lesbian woman and therefore on the way, along a road that slowly outlines over the course of my life, which I think fully worthy of being lived as such.
However, and I remember this with great pain, at the exit from the Evangelical Church where the conference had been held, a young young lady apparently very kind, with Mellifluo to do me a letter in a closed envelope telling me, with a great smile, that it was a surprise.
I, impatient, opened the package but, as soon as my eyes started to flow the lines, I immediately understood what it was ... few expressions are sufficient to summarize its meaning and, unfortunately, the ultimate goal: "homosexual and heterosexuals of condescending" (as if we, bearers of a different sexual orientation, was the poor to be compathet and not to indulge), " Homosexuality is sin may not have changed their mind, we cannot deny his word, because he has expressed himself very clearly ", when instead it would be advisable, to all those who have doubts in this regard, to read some good and objective biblical exegesis, which takes into account cultural and historical data.
But the letter, written by the self -styled "family movement of light" unfortunately did not stop at this: "You are outclassing God, judged yourself by yourself and you fulfill yourself, making you equal to him", comparing homosexuality to the attempt to place himself in the place of the Lord.
These words have simply hurt me not only as homosexual, but also as a christian, as catholic and as a human being, because my experience Of god, whom i can say that i met and That daily (as happens to each of us) is present in my life, is An experience of love and not hatred towards myself and towards others.
The girl of the letter said, referring to herself, "I converted myself and then my life changed". I, too, mediating for a long time, came to the same conclusion regarding my existence, but I have a point of view based on love on life: only by discovering and accepting my homosexuality did I manage to feel authentically loved by Christ.
Only when I agreed to see myself in my true nature as a woman and lesbian did I start "build my home on the rock" or my life on a more solid bases than those of hatred, contempt and resentment towards an important part of myself, which was certainly foreseen in the plans of the Lord and which is precisely for this reason he has the right to exist.
