John M. An, Swift, Gay, Pope, and Satire, The Sewanee Review, Vol. 98, No. 4 (Fall, 1990), pp. 689-694
Contents:
- THE FIRST GAY POPE
- POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY "IS NOT A CRIME," BUT GAY SEX IS "A S"
- DOCUMENTG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY SATIRE: POPE, SWIFT, GAY, AND ARBUTHNOT HISTORIL CONTEXT
- POPE FRANCIS LLS FOR END TO ANTI-GAY LAWS AND LGBTQ+ WELE OM CHURCH
- GAY MEN DECLARE TAYLOR SWIFT THE QUEEN OF POP
THE FIRST GAY POPE
The real reasons why Pope Francis is phg Catholics to bee more welg and ls judgmental of gays and lbians * pope swift gay young and thompson *
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". That's not bee more and more gay Catholics are startg to believe that he has our backs.
" -- has changed the Church's teachg on homosexualy.
The Vatin's official posn on homosexually, found the notor document the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah issued 1986, still stands.
POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY "IS NOT A CRIME," BUT GAY SEX IS "A S"
* pope swift gay young and thompson *
And so do s scriptn of homosexualy as "an objective disorr" that is "more or ls a strong tenncy towards an trsic moral evil". 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). 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.
DOCUMENTG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY SATIRE: POPE, SWIFT, GAY, AND ARBUTHNOT HISTORIL CONTEXT
LGBTQ+ advot hail Pope’s rejectn of sexual orientatn as crime and ll to bishops to rist anti-gay laws as ‘tone’ * pope swift gay young and thompson *
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. And this has eed more prits and bishops who would have been reful to appear as "gay iendly", even up to a few years ago, to imate the pope's style of openns and acceptance.
Not judgg gay prits A lot of very good and rmative articl have wrten about how Francis has begun changg the way the Church se and treats homosexuals, exclively by his own posive example.
" reference to gays. What many people seem to have fotten, however, he was speakg specifilly about gay clerics. The qutn he was asked ncerned one of his close Vatin ais, a prit who had been disvered to be a homosexual liaison (or stable relatnship) durg service at the papal nunciature Uguay, and whether there was a "gay lobby" the Vatin.
POPE FRANCIS LLS FOR END TO ANTI-GAY LAWS AND LGBTQ+ WELE OM CHURCH
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"You mt distguish between the fact of a person beg gay and the fact of someone formg a lobby, bee not all lobbi are good.
"If someone is gay and is searchg for the Lord and has good will, then who am I to judge him? Prev pop have largely avoid speakg about homosexually public.
He knows that there's a large percentage of homosexuals among Catholic prits and bishops. And like the rt of , he also knows there are (and always have been) homosexual rdals (and even past pop).
GAY MEN DECLARE TAYLOR SWIFT THE QUEEN OF POP
Reassurg those who stggle, while challengg the hypocr Though 's still nsired a tabu to speak of homosexualy among the Church's ordaed misters, Francis has begun -- even jt a ltle -- to break the silence.
First of all, to ease the nscienc of those clerics who have admted they are gay and want to ntue fahfully servg God's people.