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OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS

Openly Gay Catholic Prit Discs Pope Francis' Appeal For LGBTQ Protectns Rachel Mart speaks wh Fr.

INFORMATN FOR GAY & LBIAN CATHOLICS

Openly Gay Catholic Prit Discs Pope Francis' Appeal For LGBTQ Protectns.

WHAT DO LOOK LIKE TO BE GAY – AND A PRACTICG CATHOLIC?

He's an openly gay Catholic MASSINGALE: I was actually very exced and even jubilant, I have to say. I was very, very pleased to hear the pope make this kd of endorsement of civil unns for gay and lbian persons.

CATHOLIC DCE SAYS GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE N'T BE BAPTIZED OR RECEIVE COMMUNN

And he says that gay and lbian persons have the right to a fay and a right to a fay life. And so this ll for the civil regnn and protectn of gay civil unns, 's really an affirmatn of the humany of gay and lbian persons - that he's sayg that bee gay and lbian persons are human begs, that society, that the state, that ernments have an obligatn and a duty to protect their basic human Do extendg the right to a civil unn and acknowledgg that LGBTQ people should be allowed to have a partner their life through a civil unn and a fay - do that mean children?

Now, may seem to be a semantic difference, but I thk what the pope is sayg is that he is not opposed to the legal regnn of fay life and the right for gay and lbian persons to raise and have As a gay Catholic yourself, I mean, as a man of fah, as a Catholic, is somehow ls signifint, I would image, a civil unn than beg able to be married the church? I personally - and I know many others, gay and lbian persons and those who are alli and who love - would want the church to be able to one day regnize the lovg mments of LGBTQ persons the sacrament of marriage.

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