Euro topics: Vatican relaxes stance on homosexuals

If you don't yet know the e-news site "euro topics," your life will now be forever changed. Today's theme:
"Is this not the first time that a minister of the Vatican State has publicly and explicitly described homosexual couples as legal persons? I think so, and I can only welcome this statement as considerable progress given that the Holy See has always opposed the protection of homosexual couples even in civil law. ..."