An enuragg note om Pope Francis pped an pecially disorientg week on the Vatin’s stance toward gay rights.
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
LGBTQ+ advot hail Pope’s rejectn of sexual orientatn as crime and ll to bishops to rist anti-gay laws as ‘tone’ * the pope on gay people *
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. Francis quoted the Catholic techism sayg gay people mt be weled and rpected, and should not be margalised or discrimated agast.
VATIN CLARIFI POPE’S STANCE ON GAY CIVIL UNNS
Pope Francis said Sunday that Christians should apologize to gays and lbians, remarks that quickly have been hailed as historic. * the pope on gay people *
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. 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 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.
THE POPE SAYS GOD MA GAY PEOPLE JT AS WE SHOULD BE – HERE’S WHY HIS MENTS MATTER
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.
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Still, the Vatin acknowledg that do nfirm Pope Francis’s belief that gay upl are entled to legal protectns.
POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY "IS NOT A CRIME," BUT GAY SEX IS "A S"
“Homosexual people have the right to be a fay. The pope’s ments were shockg that they broke om the Catholic Church’s steadfastly held belief that gay unns are patible wh the church’s relig teachgs, and they also flouted a 2003-era le outled the Vatin’s doctre office that prohibs support for gay unns.
The document was signed by Pope Francis’s precsor, Pope Benedict XVI, reads that the church’s support for gay people “nnot lead any way to approval of homosexual behavr or to legal regnn of homosexual unns. Ultimately, the Vatin stat that Pope Francis did not rebel agast the Catholic doctre regardg gay marriage, spe the fact that his support for legal protectns for gay upl 2010 works diametric opposn to the 2003 document issued by the advisor board lled the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah.
THE POPE’S ‘SHOCKG’ STATEMENT ON GAY MARRIAGE IS G AN UPROAR AMONG CATHOLICS
The document stated that “the prcipl of rpect and non-discrimatn nnot be voked to support legal regnn of homosexual unns. WHAT IS THE LEGACY OF PETE BUTTIGIEG’S HISTORIC RUN AS AMERICA’S FIRST GAY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE? GAY CONVERSION THERAPY OFFICIALLY BANNED IN VIRGINIA.
POPE SAYS CHRISTIANS SHOULD APOLOGIZE TO GAY PEOPLE
It is immensely powerful to hear that Pope Francis, the lear of the Roman Catholic church, reportedly told Juan Carlos Cz, a gay man: “God ma you like this and lov you like this. Lbian, gay, bi and trans people exist every muny, om every ethnic background and every relign. 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.
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.