It shouldn't seem so surprisg when the pope says beg gay 'isn't a crime' – a Catholic theologian explas

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• POPE FRANCIS LLS FOR END TO ANTI-GAY LAWS AND LGBTQ+ WELE OM CHURCH
• ITS OFFICIAL: POPE FRANCIS SUPPORTS HOMOSEXUALY AND DEMANDS THAT ALL CHRISTIANS ACCEPT GAY MARRIAGE
• THE POPE SAYS GOD MA GAY PEOPLE JT AS WE SHOULD BE – HERE’S WHY HIS MENTS MATTER
• POPE TO CHURCH: BE MORE ACCEPTG OF DIVORCED CATHOLICS, GAYS AND LBIANS
• POPE FRANCIS' LGBTQ MENTS ARE NOT SURPRISG BUT SCERE, GAY VATIN ADVISER SAYS
• POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY IS A S BUT NOT A CRIME AND CRICIZ 'UNJT' ANTI-GAY LAWS
• SUPPORT YOUR CHILDREN IF THEY ARE GAY, POPE TELLS PARENTS
• IT SHOULDN’T SEEM SO SURPRISG WHEN THE POPE SAYS BEG GAY ‘ISN’T A CRIME’ – A CATHOLIC THEOLOGIAN EXPLAS

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”.

ITS OFFICIAL: POPE FRANCIS SUPPORTS HOMOSEXUALY AND DEMANDS THAT ALL CHRISTIANS ACCEPT GAY MARRIAGE

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.

THE POPE SAYS GOD MA GAY PEOPLE JT AS WE SHOULD BE – HERE’S WHY HIS MENTS MATTER

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. 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. "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.

POPE TO CHURCH: BE MORE ACCEPTG OF DIVORCED CATHOLICS, GAYS AND LBIANS

"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.

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

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.

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.

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

"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. Its official, for the first time Catholic history, a pope has e out support of homosexual “civil unns” which is really jt secular marriage unr a state.

SUPPORT YOUR CHILDREN IF THEY ARE GAY, POPE TELLS PARENTS

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IT SHOULDN’T SEEM SO SURPRISG WHEN THE POPE SAYS BEG GAY ‘ISN’T A CRIME’ – A CATHOLIC THEOLOGIAN EXPLAS

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