Pope Francis says homosexualy "is not a crime," but gay sex is "a s" - CBS News

Contents:

• POPE FRANCIS LLS FOR END TO ANTI-GAY LAWS AND LGBTQ+ WELE OM CHURCH
• VATIN CLARIFI POPE’S STANCE ON GAY CIVIL UNNS
• THE POPE SAYS GOD MA GAY PEOPLE JT AS WE SHOULD BE – HERE’S WHY HIS MENTS MATTER
• POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY "IS NOT A CRIME," BUT GAY SEX IS "A S"
• THE POPE’S ‘SHOCKG’ STATEMENT ON GAY MARRIAGE IS G AN UPROAR AMONG CATHOLICS
• POPE SAYS CHRISTIANS SHOULD APOLOGIZE TO GAY PEOPLE

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

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.

VATIN CLARIFI POPE’S STANCE ON GAY CIVIL UNNS

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.

THE POPE SAYS GOD MA GAY PEOPLE JT AS WE SHOULD BE – HERE’S WHY HIS MENTS MATTER

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 HOMOSEXUALY "IS NOT A CRIME," BUT GAY SEX IS "A S"

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.

The Vatin said that Pope Francis’s ments supportg legal protectn for gay upl were taken out of ntext a ntroversial documentary.

As the archbishop of Buenos Air 2010, Francis supported extendg legal protectns to gay civil unns. Followg Pope Francis’s historic ments on gay civil unns, officials at the headquarters of the Catholic Church, the Vatin, are sayg that the Pope’s ments were taken out of ntext, acrdg to NBC News.

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

The Vatin secretariat of state reportedly said that the documentary “Franc, ” where Pope Francis ma ments supportg gay civil unns, clips of different mentary were spliced together to create narrative distct om what the pope actually said. Officials wh the church mata that the terview, Pope Francis was referrg to the posn he held 2010 as the archbishop of Buenos Air Argenta, where he opposed gay marriage but supported legal protectns to gay upl unr Argentian civil law. ANTI-GAY GOP LAWMAKER VOTED AGAINST CORONAVIRUS BILL BECAUSE IT ‘REDEFINED FAMILY’.

POPE SAYS CHRISTIANS SHOULD APOLOGIZE TO GAY PEOPLE

Still, the Vatin acknowledg that do nfirm Pope Francis’s belief that gay upl are entled to legal protectns.