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• POPE FRANCIS LLS FOR END TO ANTI-GAY LAWS AND LGBTQ+ WELE OM CHURCH
• POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY "IS NOT A CRIME," BUT GAY SEX IS "A S"
• THE POPE’S ‘SHOCKG’ STATEMENT ON GAY MARRIAGE IS G AN UPROAR AMONG CATHOLICS
• EXCLUSIVE: TAYLOR MARSHALL SAYS POPE FRANCIS MAY CHANGE POSN OF CATHOLIC CHURCH ON GAY MARRIAGE
• SUPPORT YOUR CHILDREN IF THEY ARE GAY, POPE TELLS PARENTS
• POPE FRANCIS SAYS PARENTS SHOULD ‘NEVER NMN’ GAY CHILDREN
• POPE SAYS CHRISTIANS SHOULD APOLOGIZE TO GAY PEOPLE

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. 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”. 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.

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

It teach that homosexuals should be treated wh digny but is opposed to gay bgrapher Aten Ivereigh told Rters that the pope's ments the film were some of the cleart language the pontiff has ed on the subject sce his electn 2013. "Pope Francis' clear and public support for same-sex civil unns marks a new stage the church's relatnship wh LGBTQ people, " said Father Jam Mart, a Ju prit and thor of "Buildg a Bridge, " a book about Catholic mistry to homosexuals. ""The Secretary-General has spoken out very forcefully agast homophobia favor of LGBTQ rights, that people should never persecuted or discrimated agast jt for who they love, " U.

" remark about homosexuals tryg to live a Christian life, spoke a sectn of the film about Andrea Rubera, a gay man who wh his partner adopted three says the film that he went to a morng Mass the pope said his Vatin rince and gave him a letter explag his told the pope that he and his partner wanted to brg the children up as Catholics the lol parish but did not want to e any trma for the children. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTAn enuragg note om Pope Francis pped an pecially disorientg week on the Vatin’s stance toward gay Casilli/RtersPublished June 27, 2021Updated July 6, 2021VATICAN CITY — A lear the Roman Catholic Church’s effort to reach out to L. Catholics revealed on Sunday that Pope Francis had sent him a eply enuragg note, ppg an pecially disorientg week on the Vatin’s attu toward gay Tuday, the Vatin nfirmed that had tried to fluence the affairs of the Italian state by exprsg grave ncerns about legislatn currently Parliament that creas protectns for L.

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

And days later, the Vatin’s send mand sisted the church had nothg agast gay rights, but was protectg self om leavg the church’s re beliefs open to crimal charg of eight years after Pope Francis famoly rpond, “Who am I to judge? ”Those words will almost certaly give sucr to Francis’ liberal supporters, many of whom were eply disheartened by a March rponse by the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah, the church’s top doctral office, to an quiry about whether Catholic clergy have the thory to bls gay unns. “Negative, ” was the answer, which Francis people who support gay rights and are close to the pope say he told them that he relented unr prsure om the ngregatn, a cisn he regretted and hoped to rectify.

Francis stunned the fahful and a secular dience more acctomed to sldg about homosexualy and gay marriage when asked by reporters about a prit who was said to be gay, he rpond, “Who am I to judge? ”His landmark 2016 document on fay — tled “The Joy of Love” — rejected same-sex marriage but lled on prits to be welg to people nontradnal relatnships, like gay recently, Francis exprsed support for same-sex civil unns. People the church, which ma the Vatin’s March rejectn of the blsg of gay unns so much Carlos Cz, a Chilean sexual abe survivor and gay person whom the pope beiend, wrote an opn article a Chilean newspaper that cricized the doctral watchdog’s rejectn of blsgs as sultg to L.

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

Church’s doctral office is led by Cardal Luis Ladaria, who was handpicked by the pope and is seen as lock step wh an explanatory note, the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah said that while welg gay people, who have a right to be blsed, the church will not bls same-sex unns bee God “do not and nnot bls s. Vatin officials wh knowledge of the document said that the pope did not at any time oppose the cisn, and that he was absolutely clear on qutns of church cisn prompted wispread disappotment, even disgt, among gay Catholics and their advot. Alsandro Zan, the bill’s sponsor, said such ncerns were outlandish and not reflected the the pope clearly approved the terventn, Cardal Gvanni Battista Re told Rome’s Il Msaggero newspaper on reactn was tense and angry om Italians who acced the Vatin of impgg on the state’s mocratic procs and om trated and nfed gay Catholics who aga saw the pope, spe everythg he had said, as actg agast an apparent effort at damage ntrol, Cardal Pietro Parol, the Vatin’s secretary of state and the send hight-rankg official after the pope, released a statement on said that the Vatin was not seekg to block the legislatn but worried that the vague draft language, and the enormo latu of Italian judg, uld lead to crimal discrimatn charg for basic church practic.

More about Jason HorowzA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 7 of the New York edn wh the headle: More Mixed Msag Are Sent by Pope Francis On Rights of Gay People. Followg Pope Francis’s announcement clarg support for civil unn laws for same-sex upl, which breaks wh tradnal Catholic valu that oppose homosexual relatnships, the lear has garnered both cricism and support om people all over the world. 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.

SUPPORT YOUR CHILDREN IF THEY ARE GAY, POPE TELLS PARENTS

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.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis cricized laws that crimalize homosexualy as “unjt, ” sayg God lov all his children jt as they are and lled on Catholic bishops who support the laws to wele LGBTQ people to the church. Francis acknowledged that Catholic bishops some parts of the world support laws that crimalize homosexualy or discrimate agast the LGBTQ muny, and he himself referred to the issue terms of “s. Gay rights advot say the antiquated laws are ed to harass homosexuals, and pot to new legislatn, such as the “Don’t say gay” law Florida, which forbids stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty krgarten through third gra, as evince of ntued efforts to margalize LGBTQ people.

The Uned Natns has repeatedly lled for an end to laws crimalizg 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. In 2019, Francis had been expected to issue a statement opposg crimalizatn of homosexualy durg a meetg wh human rights groups that nducted rearch to the effects of such laws and so-lled “nversn therapi. "The crimalizatn of homosexualy is a problem that nnot be ignored, " said Pope January, the Pope said an terview wh The Associated Prs that while homosexualy self "is not a crime, " same-sex sexual relatns are a "s.

POPE FRANCIS SAYS PARENTS SHOULD ‘NEVER NMN’ GAY CHILDREN

Christiane Northup, a matriarch of women’s alternative health, who rose to fame on the strength of several “Oprah” appearanc and btsellg books, published by the New Age self-help platform Hay Hoe, whose founr, Louise Hay, was famo for tellg gay men dyg of AIDS that they jt didn’t love themselv enough.

The Church doctre enurag members to wele and rpect gay parishners, though also stat that gay members are “lled to chasty, ” acrdg to the Human Rights Campaign s asssment of the Church’s stance on LGBTQ issu.

The Vatin this month opposed an anti-homophobia law troduced Italy’s Parliament, which uld require some Catholic schools the untry to adopt state-mandated lsons on tolerance and genr, CNN reported last week. VATICAN CITY, Jan 26 (Rters) - Pope Francis said on Wednday that parents of gay children should not nmn them but offer them spoke unscripted ments at his weekly dience reference to difficulti that parents n face raisg issu clud "parents who see different sexual orientatns their children and how to handle this, how to acpany their children, and not hi behd an attu of nmnatn, " Francis has prevly said that gays have a right to be accepted by their fai as children and has also said that while the Church nnot accept same-sex marriage n support civil unn laws aimed at givg gay partners jot rights areas of pensns and health re and herance issu.

POPE SAYS CHRISTIANS SHOULD APOLOGIZE TO GAY PEOPLE

REUTERS/Remo Casilli Acquire Licensg RightsLast year, the Vatin's doctral office issued a document sayg that Catholic prits nnot bls same-sex unns, a lg that greatly disappoted gay some untri, such as the Uned Stat and Germany, parish and misters had begun blsg same-sex unns li of marriage, and there have been lls for bishops to facto stutnalise the. 3 billn-member Church have said the pope - who has sent not of appreciatn to prits and nuns who mister to gay Catholics - is givg mixed signals on homosexualy, nfg some of the month, a Vatin partment apologised for "g pa to the entire LGBTQ muny" by removg om s webse a lk to rource material om a Catholic gay rights advocy group preparatn for a Vatin meetg 2023 on the Church's future directn.

"The crimalisatn of homosexualy is a problem that nnot be ignored, " said Francis, who then ced unnamed statistics acrdg to which 50 untri crimalise LGBT people " one way or another" and about 10 others have laws cludg the ath penalty for U.