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Contents:

• BOOKS BY FRANCIS GAY
• POPE FRANCIS' LGBTQ MENTS ARE NOT SURPRISG BUT SCERE, GAY VATIN ADVISER SAYS
• WHO IS ANCIS GAY THOR OF THE IENDSHIP BOOK?
• THE FRIENDSHIP BOOKS BY FRANCIS GAY
• POPE FRANCIS LLS FOR END TO ANTI-GAY LAWS AND LGBTQ+ WELE OM CHURCH
• THE IENDSHIP BOOK OF FRANCIS GAY: A THOUGHT FOR EACH DAY 1982
• FRANCIS GAY
• FRANCIS MAY NOT BE GAY MUCH LONGER
• ISLAND HISTORY: FRANCIS GAY, -FOUNR OF GAY & ROBSON, INC.
• POPE FRANCIS SAYS BEG GAY ‘ISN’T A CRIME’ AS HE DENOUNC ‘UNJT’ ANTI-LGBTQ LAWS

BOOKS BY FRANCIS GAY

Pope Francis' LGBTQ ments are not surprisg but scere, gay Vatin adviser says. An openly gay advisor to the Vatin says he's not surprised by Pope Francis' claratn that "beg homosexual isn't a crime. In his first terview sce the ath of former Pope Benedict XVI, Francis told the Associated Prs that laws crimalizg homosexualy are "unjt" and that Catholic bishops should apply "tenrns" and help ease discrimatn by welg LGBTQ people to the church.

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

Cz says the church's sistence that homosexualy is "s, " a posn embraced by the pope, is "shameful, " although Cz says the pope appears to be tryg to shift the church's relatnship wh the LGBTQ muny.

WHO IS ANCIS GAY THOR OF THE IENDSHIP BOOK?

And he shifts this, you know, wordg, like you said , Leila, but he highlights how important is that 's more sful, you know, havg thgs agast your neighbor or beg uncharable, or crimal towards the gay muny, that's sful. 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.

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. That is, for Francis, beg gay and the teachg of the Catholic Church is an “and/and” proposn.

THE FRIENDSHIP BOOKS BY FRANCIS GAY

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.

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.

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

To be clear – bee this is often a nfed pot – the Catholic Church distguish between beg gay and actg on same-sex attractn.

THE IENDSHIP BOOK OF FRANCIS GAY: A THOUGHT FOR EACH DAY 1982

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.

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?

FRANCIS GAY

“I have acpanied people wh homosexual tennci and also wh homosexual practic, ” Francis said durg an -flight prs nference returng om Azerbaijan October, 2016.

FRANCIS MAY NOT BE GAY MUCH LONGER

“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. I am a huge fan of the ‘Friendship Books by Francis Gay’, the on that have a thought for the day, every day of the year.

They said, ”The first Friendship Book of Francis Gay, dated 1939, went on sale 1938.

The Francis Gay Fund, origally the Coal Fund, began a small way about forty years ago, when donatns om rears were ed to buy Christmas food parcels and bags of al for needy people. 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”.

ISLAND HISTORY: FRANCIS GAY, -FOUNR OF GAY & ROBSON, INC.

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 SAYS BEG GAY ‘ISN’T A CRIME’ AS HE DENOUNC ‘UNJT’ ANTI-LGBTQ LAWS

Francis has not changed the church’s teachg, which has long riled gay Catholics.