Pope Francis Conmns Anti-Gay Laws, Says Homosexualy 'Not a Crime'

Contents:

• THE POPE’S ‘SHOCKG’ STATEMENT ON GAY MARRIAGE IS G AN UPROAR AMONG CATHOLICS
• POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY "IS NOT A CRIME," BUT GAY SEX IS "A S"
• 21 GAY POPES, CARDINALS AND ASSORTED CATHOLIC LEADERS.
• POPE FRANCIS LLS FOR END TO ANTI-GAY LAWS AND LGBTQ+ WELE OM CHURCH
• POPE FRANCIS SHOWERS GAY MISTRY WH PRAISE DURG PRI MONTH
• POPE FRANCIS' LGBTQ MENTS ARE NOT SURPRISG BUT SCERE, GAY VATIN ADVISER SAYS
• POPE FRANCIS CONMNS ANTI-GAY LAWS AROUND THE WORLD: 'BEG HOMOSEXUAL IS NOT A CRIME'

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

Pope Francis recently revealed his support for gay civil unns, breakg om Catholic tradn.

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.

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

“I am really sndalized by his fense of homosexual unn, which surely leads to immoral acts. ANTI-GAY GOP LAWMAKER VOTED AGAINST CORONAVIRUS BILL BECAUSE IT ‘REDEFINED FAMILY’. WHAT IS THE LEGACY OF PETE BUTTIGIEG’S HISTORIC RUN AS AMERICA’S FIRST GAY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE?

In the film, the pontiff said that gay dividuals are “children of God and have a right to a fay.

21 GAY POPES, CARDINALS AND ASSORTED CATHOLIC LEADERS.

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. GAY CONVERSION THERAPY OFFICIALLY BANNED IN VIRGINIA. Pope Francis: Homosexualy "isn't a crime".

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. Francis reerated, however, church teachg that engagg homosexual activy is sful.

Pope signals support for same-sex unns parture om Catholic Church stance on gay rights.

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

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.

POPE FRANCIS SHOWERS GAY MISTRY WH PRAISE DURG PRI MONTH

"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.

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.

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

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. 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. The Gay Sunshe Interviews, Vol.

POPE FRANCIS CONMNS ANTI-GAY LAWS AROUND THE WORLD: 'BEG HOMOSEXUAL IS NOT A CRIME'

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.