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Sabina Guzzanti speaks out about gay rights
Comedian faces jail for support of homosexuals.
"Guzzanti slammed the Pope's obstruction to gay rights, stating that he should be in hell for the way the church has treated homosexuals"
Comedian Sabina Guzzanti could spend up to five-years in jail for charges filed under a fascist era law.
During Rome's Piazza Navona in July, Guzzanti slammed the Pope's obstruction to gay rights, stating that he should be in hell for the way the church has treated homosexuals. In her speech she said:
"Within twenty years the Pope will be where he ought to be, in hell, tormented by great big poofter devils - and very active ones, not passive ones."
She has been accused of "offending the honour of the sacred and inviolable person" of Pope Benedict XVI, and faces punishment by the Lateran Treaty, which was signed by fascist dictator Benito Mussolini and the Vatican.
The treaty, created in 1929, specifies that an insult to the Pope demands the same penalty as an insult to the Italian President.
The charges have incensed Guzzanti's father, right-leaning MP Paolo Guzzanti, who argued:
"[This is] a return to the Middle Ages. Perhaps my daughter should be be submitted to the judgment of God by being made to walk on hot coals."
The case continues.
