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Contents:

• POPE FRANCIS SIGNALTED A REMARKABLE SHIFT TOWARDS A WIR ACCEPTANCE OF GAYS ON MONDAY. GIF
• 21 GAY POPES, CARDINALS AND ASSORTED CATHOLIC LEADERS.
• POPE FRANCIS LLS FOR END TO ANTI-GAY LAWS AND LGBTQ+ WELE OM CHURCH
• SUPPORT YOUR CHILDREN IF THEY ARE GAY, POPE TELLS PARENTS

POPE FRANCIS SIGNALTED A REMARKABLE SHIFT TOWARDS A WIR ACCEPTANCE OF GAYS ON MONDAY. GIF

Make them as gay as you wish!

21 GAY POPES, CARDINALS AND ASSORTED CATHOLIC LEADERS.

Pope Francis on homosexualyby Slobama390 views, 58 upvot, 13 ments. While the Roman Catholic Church has long nmned homosexual acts as sful, history neverthels shows many of the church’s lears engaged same-sex love.

There is evince that of the 266 pop history, nearly a dozen were gay, bisexual or, one se, transgenr. John XII (955-964)This church lear would mol his papacy on the le of Roman Emperor Elagabol, a potentially transgenr liberte, and would host gay i the papal palace, acrdg to historian Wayne Dyn’s Encyclopedia of Homosexualy.

Benedict IX (1033-1045; 1047-1048)Consired by many to be the first “primarily homosexual” pope, Benedict would be acced of turng the Vatin to a “male brothel, ” acrdg to rearcher Lynne Yamaguchi Fletcher. Boniface VIII (1294-1303)Kg Philip IV of France, an enemy of the pope, would dispatch spi to gather rmatn on Boniface, and based on reports om Roman aristocrats, he would publicly acce the pope of sodomy, acrdg to Who’s Who Gay and Lbian History: From Antiquy to World War II. John XXII (1316-1334)While there’s ls bountiful evince than wh other pop, John XXII ma the list of gay pop clud Noel Gar’s 1964 tome Jonathan to Gi: The Homsexual History.

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

This may have been an suatn about a predisposn toward fancy cloth and fe thgs, or uld have been a timatn of the church lear’s homosexualy, the latter of which earned Pl II k Arno Karlen’s Sexualy and Homosexualy.

But Sixt, born Franc lla Rovere, also would be known for favorism, cludg elevatg his male lover (and nephew) Petro Riaro to Cardal, acrdg to Louis Crompton’s Homosexualy and Civilizatn.

The ntroversial pope also would have to al wh sndal about his sexualy, wh an anonymo pamphlet circulated Rome allegg Leo has taken multiple gay lovers. Cardal Francis Joseph Spellman (1939-1967)The rdal, who was archbishop of New York at the time of his ath, was surround for years by mors of his homosexualy, wh bgrapher John Cooney statg he terviewed at least four dividuals wh personal knowledge of Spellman’s leangs, acrdg to journalist Michelangelo Signorile.

SUPPORT YOUR CHILDREN IF THEY ARE GAY, POPE TELLS PARENTS

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2 suggted that the more tolerant view of homosexualy creed by John may have stemmed om his sexual orientatn. Pl VI (1963-1978)The 20th-century pope faced wrten accatns om profsor Fran Bellegradi, a Vatin sir at the start of Pl’s papacy, that mors of homosexualy circulated while he served as archbishop of Milan. In 2009, he would e out a memoir as gay.

I suppose jt shows you that homosexualy the prithood is far om new. Gay PopWhile the Roman Catholic Church has long nmned homosexual acts as sful, history neverthels shows many of the church's lears engaged same-sex love. There is evintce that of the 266 pop history, nearly a dozen were gay, bisexual or, one se, transgenr.