Openly Gay Catholic Prit Discs Pope Francis' Appeal For LGBTQ Protectns : NPR

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"
• BREAKING: POPE SAYS IT’S OKAY TO BE GAY
• THE POPE’S ‘SHOCKG’ STATEMENT ON GAY MARRIAGE IS G AN UPROAR AMONG CATHOLICS
• OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS

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. “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”.

POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY "IS NOT A CRIME," BUT GAY SEX IS "A 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.

BREAKING: POPE SAYS IT’S OKAY TO BE GAY

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 POPE’S ‘SHOCKG’ STATEMENT ON GAY MARRIAGE IS G AN UPROAR AMONG CATHOLICS

When I meet a gay person, I have to distguish between their beg gay and beg part of a lobby. The tenncy [to homosexualy] is not the problem…they’re our brothers. Most homosexuals do not accept J’ teachgs on chasty.

Therefore, homosexual sex is a rejectn of J. Some people wh homosexual tennci choose to accept the salvatn of our Lord and mata a life of chasty.

This is the key to what Pope Francis is sayg: people wh homosexual sir who are able to exhib this level of self-ntrol should be weled as our brothers and given enuragement their stggle. However, do not say anythg about people who give to rnal sir and live promiscuoly—whether gay or straight.

OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS

He says that the tenncy to homosexualy is “not the problem, ” which is to imply that there is a problem. There may not be an official “gay lobby” the Holy See, but there is fely a gay lobby secular polil life and is vicly opposed to the Catholic Church. 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.