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
• 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

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"

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.

THE FIRST GAY POPE

Church teachg holds that homosexual acts are sful, or “trsilly disorred”, but that gay people mt be treated wh digny and rpect.

POPE FRANCIS' LGBTQ MENTS ARE NOT SURPRISG BUT SCERE, GAY VATIN ADVISER SAYS

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. 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.

POPE FRANCIS SAYS BEG GAY ‘ISN’T A CRIME’ AS HE DENOUNC ‘UNJT’ ANTI-LGBTQ LAWS

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POPE FRANCIS ON GAY CATHOLICS: GOD 'DO NOT DISOWN ANY OF HIS CHILDREN'

"However, Pope Francis has repeatedly champned homosexual rights and advoted for cln of LGBTQ people Catholic life. Stat still have laws agast sodomy, spe the Supreme Court clarg them unnstutnal pope said that some bishops om untri that crimalize homosexualy support the laws bee they're part of the lol culture, and he lled on those bishops to unrgo a procs of "nversn, " orr to wele LGBQT people to their mistry "wh tenrns. Fernánz wrote about the oral soon after Bergogl was elected Pope Francis, reuntg that a newspaper article he had penned about gay marriage had been clud the anonymo dossier and that an unnamed Vatin “ngregatn” – believed to be the one rponsible for Catholic tn -- repeatedly refed to receive him to expla has also had to acknowledge mistak his handlg of a 2019 se volvg a prit acced of sexually abg mors.

POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY IS A S BUT NOT A CRIME AND CRICIZ 'UNJT' ANTI-GAY LAWS

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.

POPE FRANCIS: BEG GAY IS A S BUT NOT A CRIME

He quoted the Catechism of the Catholic Church sayg gay people mt be weled and rpected, and should not be margalized or discrimated agast. 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.

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Progrsiv should remember that rdals om the Global South do not necsarily have progrsive views on the rights of women and gays. 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".

EXCLUSIVE: TAYLOR MARSHALL SAYS POPE FRANCIS MAY CHANGE POSN OF CATHOLIC CHURCH ON GAY MARRIAGE

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".