Italy, under the leadership of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, has promised to make social conservatism a priority and to win victories for Italian families and children.

And, in an effort to protect children, Italian prosecutors have made a necessary but controversial move.

They're going to take lesbian moms off of birth certificates because, obviously, they're not the real mother of their children.

A state prosecutor in northern Italy has demanded the cancellation of 33 birth certificates of children born to lesbian couples dating back to 2017, saying the name of the nonbiological mother should be removed.

The move by the prosecutor of Padua, which came to light late on Monday, highlighted the legal morass facing gay families in Italy. It came months after Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's government ordered city councils to stop registering same-sex parents' children.

And, may I say, based?

The government defended the prosecutor's decision.

"In Italy, marriage is only between a man and a woman, and therefore only the biological parent is the parent whose surname can be registered," Luca Ciriani, the minister for parliamentary relations, told RTL radio on Tuesday.

Italy has civil unions for homosexual couples, but not marriage.

Putting a non-biological mother on the birth certificate makes no logical sense. It's just a lady that happened to be there at the birth who is now treated like the mother.

This ruling protects kids from selfish adults who want to pretend to be parents without going through the necessary steps to become parents.

This is a good policy from Italy and the type of thing we need to begin doing in America where, increasingly, kids are seen as accessories for gay couples and disconnected from the foundation of the family.