The gargantuan protest, dubbed "Family Day," was organized by the Committee to Defend Our Children, and aimed to thwart an attempt by the ruling Democratic Party and its allies to grant legal recognition to homosexual unions and to allow homosexuals to adopt their "stepchildren"—that is, the children of their sex partners.

The protestors expressed their concern that such a measure would enable homosexuals to contract with egg donors and surrogates to "synthesize" children who will never know their mothers and who lack any right to a natural family.

"The uterus is not a furnace in which a manufactured product is made!" said Massimo Gandolfini, the main spokesman for the march, to the assembled crowd.

Calling the proposed law "destructive," Gandolfini warned that if it were approved, "there will be an enormous confusion in which the family will no longer exist, but rather various models and confusions of the family, and the victims will be our children, because the law has the power to change the culture of a people."

A vote on the bill is expected in early February.

Notably, the organizers avoided comments critical of homosexual behavior, as did the Catholic bishops who supported the march, led by Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, Archbishop of Genoa and president of the nation's episcopal conference. However, Bagnasco defended the traditional understanding of the family and the rights of children.

"The true good of the children must prevail over everything else," said Bagnasco days before the march. "They are the weakest and most vulnerable. They are not a right at all, because they are not things that are..."

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