Pope Francis to gay man 'God ma you like this,' ' don't matter'

Contents:

• POPE FRANCIS LLS FOR END TO ANTI-GAY LAWS AND LGBTQ+ WELE OM CHURCH
• POPE FRANCIS REPORTEDLY TELLS GAY MAN, 'GOD MA YOU THAT WAY AND LOV YOU'
• POPE FRANCIS TELLS GAY MAN: ‘GOD MA YOU LIKE THAT AND LOV YOU LIKE THAT’
• POPE FRANCIS' LGBTQ MENTS ARE NOT SURPRISG BUT SCERE, GAY VATIN ADVISER SAYS
• POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY IS A S BUT NOT A CRIME AND CRICIZ 'UNJT' ANTI-GAY LAWS
• EXCLUSIVE: TAYLOR MARSHALL SAYS POPE FRANCIS MAY CHANGE POSN OF CATHOLIC CHURCH ON GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MAN SAYS POPE FRANCIS TOLD HIM 'GOD MA YOU LIKE THIS' AND ' DON'T MATTER'
• YAYO GRASSI, GAY MAN AND POPE'S FORMER STUNT, OPENS UP ABOUT MEETG WH FRANCIS DC

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

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POPE FRANCIS REPORTEDLY TELLS GAY MAN, 'GOD MA YOU THAT WAY AND LOV YOU'

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.

“Beg homosexual isn’t a crime, ” Francis said on Tuday an terview.

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”. 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.

POPE FRANCIS TELLS GAY MAN: ‘GOD MA YOU LIKE THAT AND LOV YOU LIKE THAT’

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

Francis has not changed the church’s teachg, which has long riled gay Catholics. 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. Pope Francis reportedly told a gay man om Chile who was visg the Vatin that God ma him that way and lov him the way he Carlos Cz, who was reportedly a victim of sexual abe at the hands of a prit, reportedly spent days at the Vatin to talk about his reportedly told El Pais, a Spanish newspaper, that the two had a nversatn about his homosexualy and said he was told, “Juan Carlos, I don’t re about you beg gay.

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

”The Los Angel Tim reported that the Vatin did not nfirm the pope’s ments given that was a private pope has upheld Catholic teachg on homosexualy, reeratg the church's opposn to same-sex relatnships.

" ment durg his first airborne prs nference 2013, signalg a new era of acceptance and wele for gays the church. Francis followed up by meetg wh gay and transgenr Jam Mart, the thor of “Buildg a Bridge, ” told The Tim that Francis’ reported ments are a “big al” bee is likely the first time the pope ma a ment “about gay people beg born that way.

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

Progrsiv should remember that rdals om the Global South do not necsarily have progrsive views on the rights of women and gays. Gay man: Pope told me 'God ma you like that'.

GAY MAN SAYS POPE FRANCIS TOLD HIM 'GOD MA YOU LIKE THIS' AND ' DON'T MATTER'

A victim of cleril sexual abe has said that Pope Francis told him that God ma him gay and that his sexualy “do not matter. The Pope’s words would amount to a signifint parture om the teachg of the Roman Catholic Church, which nsirs homosexualy “objectively disorred” and ntrary to God’s law.

YAYO GRASSI, GAY MAN AND POPE'S FORMER STUNT, OPENS UP ABOUT MEETG WH FRANCIS DC

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.