What Pope Francis Really Said About (Gay) Marriage -- and What He Did Not | HuffPost Voic

Contents:

• THE POPE’S ‘SHOCKG’ STATEMENT ON GAY MARRIAGE IS G AN UPROAR AMONG CATHOLICS
• POPE FRANCIS WON’T BUDGE ON GAY MARRIAGE: “MARRIAGE IS MARRIAGE”
• 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"
• WHAT POPE FRANCIS REALLY SAID ABOUT (GAY) MARRIAGE -- AND WHAT HE DID NOT
• POPE'S SUPPORT FOR GAY CIVIL UNNS SEEN AS THREAT TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY IS A S BUT NOT A CRIME AND CRICIZ 'UNJT' ANTI-GAY LAWS
• POPE FRANCIS’S TAC SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE SUBVERTS SCRIPTURE TO PLEASE THE WORLD

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

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. Most recently, NBC reports that retired Philippe Bishop Arturo Bast mented that he “had very ser doubts about the moral rrectns” of the Pope’s stance on legalizg gay relatnships. While the lear of the Catholic Church exprsed his support for gay civil unns, other branch of the church rema adamant the tradnal Catholic valu.

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" He add that he "stood up for that", apparently referrg to his time as Archbishop of Buenos Air when, although opposg same-sex marriag law, he supported some legal protectns for same-sex film Franc, about the life and work of Pope Francis, premiered as part of the Rome Film well as the Pope's ments on civil unns, the film also shows him enuragg two gay men to attend church wh their three Francis's bgrapher, Aten Ivereigh, told the BBC he was "not surprised" by the latt ments. "Unr current Catholic doctre, gay relatnships are referred to as "viant behavur" 2003, the Vatin's doctral body, the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah, said that "rpect for homosexual persons nnot lead any way to approval of homosexual behavur or to legal regnn of homosexual unns" words but no sign of doctral changeThe remarks have set tongu waggg among Vatin-watchers - and they mark Francis's cleart support for the issue sce beg Pope.

POPE FRANCIS WON’T BUDGE ON GAY MARRIAGE: “MARRIAGE IS MARRIAGE”

As archbishop of Buenos Air before beg Pope, he was a stnch opponent of gay marriage, which was legalised Argenta 2010, and stead advoted civil unns for homosexual upl. Every person needs a male father and a female mother that n help them shape their inty" ptn, "If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge? " he 2014 was reported that Pope Francis had exprsed support for civil unns for same-sex partners an terview, but the Holy See's prs office nied 2018, Pope Francis said he was "worried" about homosexualy the clergy, and that was "a ser matter" on this story.

”“If they want to spend their liv together, a homosexual uple, natns have the possibily civilly to support them, to give them safety wh regards to herance and health, ” he the subject of civil unns, Francis suggted that wing the spe of who n receive partner benefs uld benef many groups of people. “There are absolutely no grounds for nsirg homosexual unns to be any way siar or even remotely analogo to God’s plan for marriage and fay, ” the statement read.

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.

POPE FRANCIS LLS FOR END TO ANTI-GAY LAWS AND LGBTQ+ WELE OM 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. 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. 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. Rome — Pope Francis has lled laws crimalizg homosexualy as fundamentally "unfair, " makg clear that the md of the lear of the Catholic Church, "beg homosexual is not a crime.

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

Catholic Church teachg says that gay people mt be weled to the church and treated wh rpect and kdns, spe the fact that homosexual acts are nsired "trsilly disorred.

"However, Pope Francis has repeatedly champned homosexual rights and advoted for cln of LGBTQ people Catholic life. Stat still have laws agast sodomy, spe the Supreme Court clarg them unnstutnal pope said that some bishops om untri that crimalize homosexualy support the laws bee they're part of the lol culture, and he lled on those bishops to unrgo a procs of "nversn, " orr to wele LGBQT people to their mistry "wh tenrns.

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

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 homosexualy terms of “s. 4 of 4 | FILE - Italian Arcigay gay rights associatn activists hold banners and flags durg a monstratn ont of The Vatin, this Tuday, Jan.

24, 2023, Pope 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 homosexualy terms of “s. 4 of 4FILE - Italian Arcigay gay rights associatn activists hold banners and flags durg a monstratn ont of The Vatin, this Tuday, Jan. 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.

POPE'S SUPPORT FOR GAY CIVIL UNNS SEEN AS THREAT TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

As he often do, Francis then imaged a nversatn wh someone who raised the matter of the church’s official teachg, which stat that homosexual acts are sful, or “trsilly disorred. His ments llg for the crimalizatn of homosexualy were hailed by LGBTQ advot as a tone that would help end harassment and vlence agast LGBTQ persons.

-based Outreach mistry for LGBTQ Catholics, asked Francis for clarifitn and prted the pope’s handwrten rponse on the Outreach webse late his note, Francis reaffirmed that homosexualy “is not a crime, ” and said he spoke out “ orr to strs that crimalizatn is neher good nor jt.

Catholic teachg forbids gay marriage, holdg that the sacrament of marriage is a lifelong bond between a man and a woman. 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.

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

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. ) 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.

POPE FRANCIS’S TAC SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE SUBVERTS SCRIPTURE TO PLEASE THE WORLD

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.