Demonstrators said the union represented the "end of Italian civilization."

A group of self-identified fascists held a funeral outside of an Italian city hall this week to protest the civil union of a gay couple.

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Fifteen members of the ultra-conservative Forza Nuova processed through the small Italian town of Cesena Sunday carrying a coffin draped with the Italian flag. The demonstrators dressed as priests and mourners, halting their march once they reached the city hall where Matteo and Marco were holding their ceremony.

Outside the hall, the marchers shouted in protest and held signs saying the men were responsible for “the end of Italian civilization,” all while friends and family of the couple were arriving for the celebration.

Local police eventually broke up the protest, a fact the neofascist group refuted on its Facebook page following the demonstration.

“There is no question that in the last forty years, an international movement… to eliminate the wedding, the basis of the family, has grown tremendously,” wrote Mirco Ottaviani, the group’s lead coordinator.

“It’s an alliance that brought together the supporters of the sexual revolution, easy birth control and divorce.”

Ottaviani added that this movement would have a negative effect on all members of society, leaving them vulnerable and alone.

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Forza Nuova announced its plans several days prior to the civil union, plastering the city with signs decrying Matteo and Marco’s same-sex relationship.

“Matteo and Marco, together with their parents and other relatives, announce the end of civilization, of our tradition of the natural family,” the signs read.

“One cornerstone of our society and God is that children grow up with a mother and a father.”

Unfortunately for these right-wing homophobes, studies have proven time and time again that not only are the children of LGBT parents fully well-adjusted, they often go on to achieve more than peers raised in more traditional homes.

h/t: GSN