ROME (AP) — Pope Francis beme the first pontiff to endorse same-sex civil unns ments for a documentary that premiered Wednday, sparkg cheers om gay Catholics and mands for clarifitn om nservativ, given the Vatin’s official teachg on the issue.
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- BISHOPS WHO SUPPORT GAY CIVIL UNNS ARE NOT HELPG SAME-SEX ATTRACTED PERSONS
- REVISG GAY MARRIAGE VS. CIVIL UNNS
BISHOPS WHO SUPPORT GAY CIVIL UNNS ARE NOT HELPG SAME-SEX ATTRACTED PERSONS
The Vatin said Pope Francis' remarks were taken out of ntext but still nfirmed the pontiff's belief that gay upl should enjoy legal protectns. * gay civil unions *
Image source, RtersImage ptn, Pope Francis' statements are a parture om prev ments about LGBT rightsPope Francis has said that he thks same-sex upl should be allowed to have "civil unns" ma the ments, which observers say are his cleart remarks yet on gay relatnships, a documentary directed by Evgeny Afeevsky.
REVISG GAY MARRIAGE VS. CIVIL UNNS
* gay civil unions *
"Homosexual people have a right to be a fay, " he said the film, which premiered on Wednday.
" He add that he "stood up for that", apparently referrg to his time as Archbishop of Buenos Air when, although opposg same-sex marriag law, he supported some legal protectns for same-sex film Franc, about the life and work of Pope Francis, premiered as part of the Rome Film well as the Pope's ments on civil unns, the film also shows him enuragg two gay men to attend church wh their three Francis's bgrapher, Aten Ivereigh, told the BBC he was "not surprised" by the latt ments. But he believed the church should advote for a civil unn law for gay upl to give them legal protectn. "Unr current Catholic doctre, gay relatnships are referred to as "viant behavur" 2003, the Vatin's doctral body, the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah, said that "rpect for homosexual persons nnot lead any way to approval of homosexual behavur or to legal regnn of homosexual unns" words but no sign of doctral changeThe remarks have set tongu waggg among Vatin-watchers - and they mark Francis's cleart support for the issue sce beg Pope.
As archbishop of Buenos Air before beg Pope, he was a stnch opponent of gay marriage, which was legalised Argenta 2010, and stead advoted civil unns for homosexual upl.
The Vatin said the pope’s statements favor of civil unns for gay upl did not change church doctre. * gay civil unions *
What has he said about homosexualy the past? Every person needs a male father and a female mother that n help them shape their inty" ptn, "If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge? "That same year, he reaffirmed the Church's posn that homosexual acts were s, but said homosexual orientatn was not.
"If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge? " he 2014 was reported that Pope Francis had exprsed support for civil unns for same-sex partners an terview, but the Holy See's prs office nied 2018, Pope Francis said he was "worried" about homosexualy the clergy, and that was "a ser matter" on this story. Check back for a new documentary that premiered Rome yterday, Pope Francis appeared to endorse civil unns for same-sex upl for the first time as portrayed the documentary, the pope says: “Homosexual people have the right to be a fay.
On July 1, 2000, Vermont beme the first state the untry to legally regnize civil unns between gay or lbian upl. Buildg on a state Supreme Court cisn Dec. * gay civil unions *
” Acceptg gay fay members or acmodatg same-sex partnerships civil law, he said, “do not mean approvg of homosexual acts. In fact, Pope Francis’ support of civil unns dat back to his days as archbishop of Buenos Air, when he proposed civil unns as an alternative to gay marriage, a posn he has reerated as recently as the pope mistranslated? ”No one remembered, however, bee that part of the clip had never McElwee of the Natnal Catholic Reporter pared the clips si by si and found that the pope’s quote about how gay people “have a right to be part of the fay” was clud Mr.
Overview A clear majory of Amerins (57%) favors allowg gay and lbian upl to enter to legal agreements wh each other that would give them * gay civil unions *
Alazraki’s terview, repeatg that they have a right to a fay but “that do not mean approvg of homosexual acts, not the least, ” was next le Mr.
The official ed do clu his ments on the need for gay people to feel they are part of a fay, as he has said Alazraki told the Natnal Catholic Reporter on Oct. It said the ments on gay civil unns were taken out of ntext a documentary that spliced together parts of an old terview but nfirmed Francis’ belief that gay upl should enjoy legal protectns.
Most pot to a 2003 document om the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah statg that “rpect for homosexual persons nnot lead any way to approval of homosexual behavur or to legal regnn of homosexual unns.
The latt Gallup survey nfirms that rpons to qutns on gay marriage and gay civil unns pend on the orr which the qutns are asked. Support for civil unns is higher if asked after rather than before the qutn on gay marriage. Support for gay marriage is lower if asked after rather than before the qutn on civil unns. The rults reflect the views of many Amerins that they would support civil unns as a substute for gay marriage. Overall, support for both proposals has creased the past several months. * gay civil unions *
”That document lled policians’ support of same-sex unns “gravely immoral” and said that “Legal regnn of homosexual unns or placg them on the same level as marriage would mean not only the approval of viant behavur, wh the nsequence of makg a mol prent-day society, but would also obscure basic valu which belong to the mon herance of humany. ’s 2003 statement still stands as the official word on whether Catholics n support gay marriage.
Cardal William Levada, who succeed Cardal Ratzger as head of the Congregatn of the Doctre of the Fah, termed 1997 as archbishop of San Francis that, rponse to the cy’s legalizatn of gay marriage, he would extend health re benefs to one other person livg wh any of his archdce’s employe, regardls of their relatnship. That way, gay upl were vered, as were, for example, two unmarried siblgs livg, the pope has not changed church teachg, but he has certaly changed the pastoral tone wh which the church approach L. Catholics yterday, cludg the advocy groups Digny and New Ways Mistry, who celebrated the statement on civil unns but were unr no illns that the church had changed s teachg on gay else has Pope Francis said on L.