The real reasons why Pope Francis is phg Catholics to bee more welg and ls judgmental of gays and lbians
Contents:
- POPE FRANCIS LLS FOR END TO ANTI-GAY LAWS AND LGBTQ+ WELE OM CHURCH
- POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY "IS NOT A CRIME," BUT GAY SEX IS "A S"
- THE FIRST GAY POPE
- POPE FRANCIS' LGBTQ MENTS ARE NOT SURPRISG BUT SCERE, GAY VATIN ADVISER SAYS
- POPE FRANCIS SAYS BEG GAY ‘ISN’T A CRIME’ AS HE DENOUNC ‘UNJT’ ANTI-LGBTQ LAWS
- POPE FRANCIS ON GAY CATHOLICS: GOD 'DO NOT DISOWN ANY OF HIS CHILDREN'
- POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY IS A S BUT NOT A CRIME AND CRICIZ 'UNJT' ANTI-GAY LAWS
- POPE FRANCIS: BEG GAY IS A S BUT NOT A CRIME
- EXCLUSIVE: TAYLOR MARSHALL SAYS POPE FRANCIS MAY CHANGE POSN OF CATHOLIC CHURCH ON GAY MARRIAGE
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’ * pope francis about gay *
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.
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.
POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY "IS NOT A CRIME," BUT GAY SEX IS "A S"
* pope francis about gay *
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.
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. 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 FIRST GAY POPE
NPR's Leila Fal speaks wh Juan Carlos Cz, a gay Chilean man who is a survivor of clergy sex abe, about remarks by Pope Francis that crimalizg homosexualy is "unjt." * pope francis about gay *
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POPE FRANCIS' LGBTQ MENTS ARE NOT SURPRISG BUT SCERE, GAY VATIN ADVISER SAYS
The lear of the Catholic Church cricized laws that crimalize same-sex relatnships, but still said beg gay is a “s.” * pope francis about gay *
Pope Francis cricized laws that crimalize homosexualy as “unjt” — while still matag that beg gay is “a s. “Beg homosexual isn’t a crime, ” Francis said Tuday durg an terview at the Vatin hotel where he liv.
Fe, but first let’s distguish between a s and a crime, ” the 86-year-old pontiff said of Catholic teachg that holds that homosexual acts are “trsilly disorred. The pontiff acknowledged that Catholic bishops some parts of the world support laws that crimalize homosexualy or discrimate agast the LGBTQ muny. He quoted the Catechism of the Catholic Church sayg gay people mt be weled and rpected, and should not be margalized or discrimated agast.
POPE FRANCIS SAYS BEG GAY ‘ISN’T A CRIME’ AS HE DENOUNC ‘UNJT’ ANTI-LGBTQ LAWS
Still, he has not changed his stance on the teachg that clar homosexual acts “trsilly disorred, ” and he was cricized for a 2021 cree that the church nnot bls same-sex unns “bee God nnot bls s. John Pl also liked strong personali who were willg to take on polil and cultural el on abortn, gay marriage and other issu.
POPE FRANCIS ON GAY CATHOLICS: GOD 'DO NOT DISOWN ANY OF HIS CHILDREN'
Progrsiv should remember that rdals om the Global South do not necsarily have progrsive views on the rights of women and gays.
POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY IS A S BUT NOT A CRIME AND CRICIZ 'UNJT' ANTI-GAY LAWS
The first gay pope For many of the same reasons that Clton has been lled the "first Black print", one uld argue that Pope Francis serv to be known as the "first gay pope". The Vatin's official posn on homosexually, found the notor document the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah issued 1986, still stands. And so do s scriptn of homosexualy as "an objective disorr" that is "more or ls a strong tenncy towards an trsic moral evil".
POPE FRANCIS: BEG GAY IS A S BUT NOT A CRIME
A style of openns and acceptance First of all, he is not aaid to e words like gay and lbian, rather than the psdo-clil "persons wh a same-sex attractn" term that's ed by many the Church (pecially those who appear doctrally rigid and fixated on the ss of the flh).
EXCLUSIVE: TAYLOR MARSHALL SAYS POPE FRANCIS MAY CHANGE POSN OF CATHOLIC CHURCH ON GAY MARRIAGE
And send of all, he's not aaid to be seen as someone who is acceptg of and iendly towards gay people.
So while the pope has changed nothg terms of official law or teachg, he has -- a real sense -- changed everythg terms of attu and ethos, jt by his own personal approach to gay people.
Francis has done more than any pope sce the so-lled sexual revolutn of the 1960s -- when people started to beg intifyg more openly as homosexuals -- to promote the rights and digny of gays and lbians wh the Catholic Church.