The Pope’s ‘shockg’ statement on gay marriage is g an uproar among Catholics – The Hill

Contents:

• WHAT POPE FRANCIS REALLY SAID ABOUT (GAY) MARRIAGE -- AND WHAT HE DID NOT
• MARIAGE GAY: LE PAPE éVOQUE S "MODèL VIE ANORMX"
• THE POPE’S ‘SHOCKG’ STATEMENT ON GAY MARRIAGE IS G AN UPROAR AMONG CATHOLICS

WHAT POPE FRANCIS REALLY SAID ABOUT (GAY) MARRIAGE -- AND WHAT HE DID NOT

« Alerte : le pape François soutient le mariage gay, une première pour un pape », s’emprse tweeter le pte Mediavenir, totalisant rapiment s centa partag. Dans un extra venu viral et notamment mis en avant par le quotidien argent La Nacn, François déclare, ncernant l personn homosexuell: « Ce que no vons faire, c’t une loi civile pour qu’ell puissent vivre ensemble ».

MARIAGE GAY: LE PAPE éVOQUE S "MODèL VIE ANORMX"

Le pape François s’t donc montré favorable à l’unn civile s upl homosexuels. Mais il n’a jamais annoncé soutenir le mariage homosexuel. The Uned Stat this past June did somethg that the Catholic Church and the Vatin have for years railed agast: granted marriage equaly to s gay and lbian cizens.

Consirg that Pope Benedict often volly exprsed harsh nmnatn of marriage equaly -- even travelg to Spa to speak out agast when that untry was among the first to legalize marriage for gays and lbians and lled a "threat to the future of humany"-- 's astonishg how silent Francis is on the issue.

I've noted the past how he had no ment as untry after untry Europe legalized marriage for gays and lbians. ) The AP reported his discsn of marriage and the fay was "an alln to gay marriage a untry that recently legalized same-sex marriage across the land.

THE POPE’S ‘SHOCKG’ STATEMENT ON GAY MARRIAGE IS G AN UPROAR AMONG CATHOLICS

Even nservativ are notg that on abortn and gay equaly, the pope was here's exactly what he said about marriage and the fay: It is my wish that throughout my vis the fay should be a recurrent theme. Yet this same culture prents others wh so many optns that they too are dissuad om startg a off, go whout sayg that gay and lbian people are a part of fai and have fai, and many are parents and raise children -- and Francis knows this bee he has met wh gay activists who are married and who have children. So if he meant that the other "optns" that are offered the "culture" today which are "dissuadg" people om "startg a fay" clu the abily to live as out gay people -- and 's possible he did -- then 's pretty weak and he tentnally didn't make his se wh clary.

Sendly, aga, this is a untry, the most powerful the world, that jt ma marriage legal for all gay and lbian cizens and the pope didn't directly -- or even directly -- addrs ? No mentn of passg laws that uld hib marriage for gays and "protect" those opposed to , like the Kentucky clerk, Kim Davis? Francis was, after all, speakg to the legislative body that uld do somethg about -- and which is tryg to, wh Republins havg troduced the od First Amendment Defense Act, which would allow clerks like Kim Davis and bakers and florists and others to ny servic to gay and lbian upl.

" That sounds more like someone promotg social programs to help the poor and stop gun-vlence than someone tryg to end same-sex, this is the head of a a church that has for years nmned gays as "trsilly disorred" (and still do, s doctre) and has seen marriage equaly as harmg the culture. " when the qutn of homosexualy was raised to him, cid not to reerate that church of this, of urse, is to say that the pope is not an artful polician, sometim tellg different dienc what they want to hear. " Though he stayed clear of marriage beg between a "man and a woman, " the term "refe marriage" is a standard charge of anti-gay nservativ.