The family exists in order to allow women to have children and to have the protection of a male who takes care of them.

The past was more Christian? At times perhaps, in others, though, no.

The family exists in order to allow women to have children and to have the protection of a male who takes care of them.

Relativism should be confronted where it damages fundamental human rights, because we're not relativists if we believe that the human being should be at the centre of society and the rights of every human being should be respected.

On the other hand, I think that the family, the traditional family, has a fundamental social role, because it's there that children are born and the investment in children is the greatest investment a country can make. The benefits of this investment go to everyone.

No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.

One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate.