OK, again this is translated from Italian via Google Translate (I’m taking Italian with Mark, but I’m not good enough yet to translate the whole thing myself quickly):

Not arrive before 12 April, the decision of the consultation on the constitutionality of the refusal of Commons to celebrate marriages between same-sex couples. The judicial sources said.

After discussion in open court yesterday, the judges – Identify the sources – consider the issue of gay marriage in the council chamber in the work week beginning on April 12.

The event that the hearing yesterday was examined by the constitutional court is that of two pairs of Venice and Trento, assisted by the radical and the network Lenford certain rights – advocacy for LGBT rights (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender).

About a year ago a homosexual couple has submitted to the City of Venice, where he resides, the request for publication to proceed to marriage, receiving a precise answer ‘no’ to the ‘deemed foreign to the Italian legal institution of marriage between same sex. ”

The couple has taken the route of the court, where judges – first in Italy – have raised the matter before the Constitutional Court.

That rejection – they wrote the judges in the decision to refer to the Read – has “no rational justification, but it is a standard” implicit in our system that excludes the right of homosexuals to marry persons of the same sex. ” In this way were violated, according to the court, many constitutional principles, first of all the articles 2 (basic human rights) and 3 (equality).

The Constitutional Court may rule in various ways: in addition to that right or wrong to the applicants, may require action by Parliament or state some principles along which the legislature to act.