Pope Francis says homosexualy "is not a crime," but gay sex is "a s" - CBS News

Contents:

• POPE FRANCIS LLS FOR END TO ANTI-GAY LAWS AND LGBTQ+ WELE OM CHURCH
• EXCLUSIVE: TAYLOR MARSHALL SAYS POPE FRANCIS MAY CHANGE POSN OF CATHOLIC CHURCH ON GAY MARRIAGE
• POPE FRANCIS: BEG GAY IS A S BUT NOT A CRIME
• POPE FRANCIS' LGBTQ MENTS ARE NOT SURPRISG BUT SCERE, GAY VATIN ADVISER SAYS
• POPE FRANCIS ON GAY CATHOLICS: GOD 'DO NOT DISOWN ANY OF HIS CHILDREN'
• POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY "IS NOT A CRIME," BUT GAY SEX IS "A S"
• POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY IS A S BUT NOT A CRIME AND CRICIZ 'UNJT' ANTI-GAY LAWS
• POPE FRANCIS CONMNS ANTI-GAY LAWS AROUND THE WORLD: 'BEG HOMOSEXUAL IS NOT A CRIME'

POPE FRANCIS LLS FOR END TO ANTI-GAY LAWS AND LGBTQ+ WELE OM CHURCH

Pope Francis has cricised laws that crimalise homosexualy as “unjt”, sayg God lov all his children jt as they are, and llg on Catholic bishops who support the laws to wele LGBTQ+ people to the church.

EXCLUSIVE: TAYLOR MARSHALL SAYS POPE FRANCIS MAY CHANGE POSN OF CATHOLIC CHURCH ON GAY MARRIAGE

“Beg homosexual isn’t a crime, ” Francis said on Tuday an terview. Francis acknowledged that Catholic bishops some parts of the world support laws that crimalise homosexualy or discrimate agast LGBTQ+ people, and he himself referred to the issue terms of “s”. Francis’s ments, which were hailed by gay rights advot as a tone, are the first uttered by a pope about such laws.

Gay rights advot say the antiquated laws are ed to jtify harassment, and pot to new legislatn, such as the “Don’t say gay” law Florida, which forbids stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty om krgarten up to third gra, as evince of ntued efforts to margalise LGBTQ+ UN has repeatedly lled for an end to laws crimalisg homosexualy outright, sayg they vlate rights to privacy and eedom om discrimatn and are a breach of untri’ obligatns unr ternatnal law to protect the human rights of all people, regardls of their sexual orientatn or genr inty. Francis quoted the Catholic techism sayg gay people mt be weled and rpected, and should not be margalised or discrimated agast.

Some Catholic bishops have strongly upheld them as nsistent wh Vatin teachg, while others have lled for them to be overturned as a vlatn of basic human Tuday, Francis said there need to be a distctn between a crime and a s wh regard to homosexualy. Church teachg holds that homosexual acts are sful, or “trsilly disorred”, but that gay people mt be treated wh digny and rpect.

POPE FRANCIS: BEG GAY IS A S BUT NOT A CRIME

Francis has not changed the church’s teachg, which has long riled gay Catholics. But he has ma reachg out to LGBTQ+ people a hallmark of his pope’s ments didn’t specifilly addrs transgenr or nonbary people, jt homosexualy, but advot of greater LGBTQ+ cln the Catholic Church hailed the pope’s ments as a momento advance. Gay man: Pope told me 'God ma you like that'.

What do Pope Francis really thk about homosexualy? He is gay.

The Italian news magaze Vatin Insir, as well as other Italian media outlets, reported that Francis spoke about gay men the semary to the Italian Bishops’ Conference durg a closed-door ssn.

POPE FRANCIS' LGBTQ MENTS ARE NOT SURPRISG BUT SCERE, GAY VATIN ADVISER SAYS

” Meang that, if someone is gay, they shouldn’t study for the prithood. That stance puts Francis le wh his precsor, Pope Benedict XVI, who issued a document 2005 statg that men wh “eply rooted homosexual tennci” shouldn’t be allowed to study for the prithood. The Pope’s public ments on gay men and women provi at least some hts of what he really thks.

POPE FRANCIS ON GAY CATHOLICS: GOD 'DO NOT DISOWN ANY OF HIS CHILDREN'

That is, for Francis, beg gay and the teachg of the Catholic Church is an “and/and” proposn. The two reali seem to be ntradictory if we nsir that Francis has exprsed publicly and shown his meetgs wh gays and transgenr persons an openns to who they are and how they live.

He said, “Who am I to judge?, ” embraced a former stunt and his gay partner Washgton, and hosted a transgenr man om Spa at the Vatin. Yet, the official teachg of the Catholic Church on beg gay is that “the homosexual clatn is objectively disorred” and same-sex upl nnot marry the Catholic Church.

So while Francis’ words and gtur sometim seem to give the msage, “It’s OK that you’re gay, ” that msag seem to be ntradicted by the l of the church he erns.

POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY "IS NOT A CRIME," BUT GAY SEX IS "A S"

The fact is that Francis has given no ditn that he wants to change Catholic Church teachg or l on beg gay or gay relatnships.

To be clear – bee this is often a nfed pot – the Catholic Church distguish between beg gay and actg on same-sex attractn. Even beg gay, which the Catholic Church lls an “clatn, ” is “objectively disorred, ” acrdg to the church.

Includ the techism’s teachg about gay men and women is that they “mt be accepted wh rpect, passn and sensivy. Fally, the Catholic Church do not e down firmly on the “nature or nurture” qutn; whether one is born gay or is a choice.

POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY IS A S BUT NOT A CRIME AND CRICIZ 'UNJT' ANTI-GAY LAWS

So how to rencile Francis’ radil openns to gay people wh his church’s firm posn that beg gay or lbian is “disorred” and s disapproval of gay relatnships? “I have acpanied people wh homosexual tennci and also wh homosexual practic, ” Francis said durg an -flight prs nference returng om Azerbaijan October, 2016. “When a person this suatn before J, J will surely not say, ‘Go away bee you are homosexual.

Conservativ say that acpanyg gay men and women should clu a rrectn of their liftyle; progrsiv say Francis’ acpaniment should clu a change doctre.

Fernánz wrote about the oral soon after Bergogl was elected Pope Francis, reuntg that a newspaper article he had penned about gay marriage had been clud the anonymo dossier and that an unnamed Vatin “ngregatn” – believed to be the one rponsible for Catholic tn -- repeatedly refed to receive him to expla has also had to acknowledge mistak his handlg of a 2019 se volvg a prit acced of sexually abg mors. John Pl also liked strong personali who were willg to take on polil and cultural el on abortn, gay marriage and other issu. Progrsiv should remember that rdals om the Global South do not necsarily have progrsive views on the rights of women and gays.

POPE FRANCIS CONMNS ANTI-GAY LAWS AROUND THE WORLD: 'BEG HOMOSEXUAL IS NOT A CRIME'

30, Francis will have appoted the overwhelmg majory of the future rdal electors, creasg the possibily that his succsor will reflect at least parts of that nsistory falls a few days before a major Vatin gatherg of bishops and laypeople where var issu will be discsed, like the role of women the church and the steps the church n take to better wele gay men, lbians and people the transgenr muny. ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has clarified his recent ments about homosexualy and s, sayg he was merely referrg to official Catholic moral teachg that teach that any sexual act outsi of marriage is a a note Friday, Francis relled that even that black-and-whe teachg is subject to circumstanc that might elimate the s altogether. 24 wh The Associated Prs, which he clared that laws crimalizg homosexualy were “unjt” and that “beg homosexual is not a crime.