7 openly gay lears have served as heads of state. Latvian print Edgars Rkēvičs is the latt

vatican against gay marriage

As Edgars Rkēvičs be the first openly gay print Latvia’s history, here’s a glimpse at other openly gay heads of state om around the world.

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VATIN BARS GAY MARRIAGE BLSG, SAYS GOD ‘CAN’T BLS S’

“Catholic people regnize the hols of the love between mted same-sex upl and regnize this love as dively spired and dively supported and th meets the standard to be blsed,” the Pope said a statement about gay marriage. * vatican against gay marriage *

" The Vatin also said that s refal to give relig approval to same-sex marriage do not preclu givg blsgs to homosexual people. " The Vatin's msage ced Francis' own words om 2016, when he wrote, "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.

Pope Francis has been viewed wh ut optimism by LGBTQ groups bee of remarks like his statement, wily published 2020, that homosexuals are "part of the fay" and that same-sex and other nontradnal upl need a "civil unn law.

THE VATIN ON GAY MARRIAGE

About 150 Italian gays monstrated the Vatin on Saturday agast Pope Benedict's opposn to gay marriage, on the anniversary of the prott suici of a gay man St Peter's Square ne years ago. * vatican against gay marriage *

The Vatin’s orthodoxy office, the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah, issued a formal rponse Monday to a qutn about whether Catholic clergy have the thory to bls gay unns. The note distguished between the church’s welg and blsg of gay people, which upheld, but not their unns.

VATIN BARS GAY UNN BLSG, SAYS GOD ‘N’T BLS S’

The Vatin lnch global mpaign agast same-sex marriage, prsur Catholic policians to oppose legalizg gay unns. * vatican against gay marriage *

The note immediately disheartened advot for LGBT Catholics and threw a wrench the bate wh the German church, which has been at the foreont of openg discsn on hot-button issu such the church’s teachg on homosexualy. Francis DeBernardo, executive director of New Ways Mistry, which advot for greater acceptance of gays the church, predicted the Vatin posn will be ignored, cludg by some Catholic clergy.

ITALIAN GAYS PROTT POPE'S STANCE ON MARRIAGE

Hoe legislatn difyg protectns for gay marriage passed spe the fact that a big majory of the Hoe Republin uc opposed . * vatican against gay marriage *

The Vatin holds that gay people mt be treated wh digny and rpect, but that gay sex is “trsilly disorred. Sce gay unns aren’t tend to be part of that plan, they n’t be blsed by the church, the document said.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

The Vatin said the pope’s statements favor of civil unns for gay upl did not change church doctre. * vatican against gay marriage *

Francis has endorsed providg gay upl wh legal protectns same-sex unns, but that was reference to the civil sphere, not wh the church.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* VATICAN AGAINST GAY MARRIAGE

Vatin bars gay unn blsg, says God 'n't bls s' | AP News .

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