U.S. Supreme Court backs Catholic group that shunned gay foster parents | Rters

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• U.S. SUPREME COURT BACKS CATHOLIC GROUP THAT SHUNNED GAY FOSTER PARENTS
• POPE FRANCIS LLS FOR END TO ANTI-GAY LAWS AND LGBTQ+ WELE OM CHURCH
• POPE FRANCIS CONMNS ANTI-GAY LAWS AROUND THE WORLD: 'BEG HOMOSEXUAL IS NOT A CRIME'

U.S. SUPREME COURT BACKS CATHOLIC GROUP THAT SHUNNED GAY FOSTER PARENTS

" It lled on Catholics "to wele wh rpect and sensivy persons wh homosexual clatns.

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

" The Vatin also said that s refal to give relig approval to same-sex marriage do not preclu givg blsgs to homosexual people. " The Vatin's msage ced Francis' own words om 2016, when he wrote, "there are absolutely no grounds for nsirg homosexual unns to be any way siar or even remotely analogo to God's plan for marriage and fay.

Pope Francis has been viewed wh ut optimism by LGBTQ groups bee of remarks like his statement, wily published 2020, that homosexuals are "part of the fay" and that same-sex and other nontradnal upl need a "civil unn law. District Judge Petre Tucker 2018 also led agast the of the 50 stat currently allow private agenci to refe to place children wh same-sex upl, acrdg to the Movement Advancement Project, a group backg gay Supreme Court recent years has sent mixed msag on the nflict between LGBT and relig backed gay rights a seri of landmark lgs cludg a 2015 cisn legalizg same-sex marriage natnwi and a 2020 lg that a feral law barrg workplace discrimatn protects gay and transgenr also bolstered relig rights several cisns cludg a 2014 lg that let owners of bs raise relig objectns agast the same-sex uple ever sought certifitn as a foster parent om Catholic Social Servic.

In addn to same-sex upl, also will not certify unmarried upl as foster parents, but do not object to certifyg dividual gay people.

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

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.