Posted on 10/21/2020 8:12:06 AM PDT by Red Badger
ROME (Reuters) – Pope Francis says in a new film released on Wednesday that homosexuals should be protected by civil union laws, in some of the clearest language he has used on the rights of gay people.
“Homosexual people have a right to be in a family. They are children of God and have a right to a family. Nobody should be thrown out or be made miserable over it,” he says in the documentary “Francesco” by Oscar-nominated director Evgeny Afineevsky.
“What we have to create is a civil union law. That way they are legally covered. I stood up for that,” he said.
The pope appeared to be referring to when he was archbishop of Buenos Aires and opposed legislation to approve same sex marriages but supported some kind of legal protection for the rights of gay couples.
According to papal biographer Austen Ivereigh, his comments in the film released on Wednesday were some of the clearest language the pope has used on the subject since his election in 2013.
The pope spoke in a section of the film about Andrea Rubera, a gay man who with his partner adopted three children.
Rubera says in the film that he went to a morning Mass the pope said in his Vatican residence and gave him a letter explaining his situation.
He told the pope that he and his partner wanted to bring the children up as Catholics in the local parish but did not know how they would be received. It was not clear in which country Rubera lives
Rubera said the pope telephoned him several days later, telling him he was moved by the letter and urging the couple to introduce their children to the parish but to be ready for opposition.
The film shows Rubera giving the letter to the pope. He says he and his partner took the pope’s advice and are happy they did.
(Reporting By Philip Pullella; Editing by Gareth Jones and Giles Elgood)
DING! DING! DING! WE HAVE A WINNER!.....................
Soon, I’m sure....................
Wow. This Pope is also an expert on civil law too. Is there anything he doesn’t know?
His ass from a hole in the ground.................
The devil is working VERY HARD everywhere China has released it EVERYWHERE its all about money!! I have despised this Pope from early on!!!
This “Pope” just refuses to go by the script that God wrote for him. . . .
This guy should read the Bible-——or not.
Sorry Francis. That won’t be good enough. Until you hace bishops marrying seminarians in St Peter’s Bassilica the gay advocates won’t be happy. I know you want that future and lord knows if you said it was okay there would be plenty of takes within the clergy under you but the rest of the church would reject you outright. So now you get to be blasted by gays for not being gay enough. Enjoy!
Sure, let’s just drop the Biblical views of sodomy and accept everything worldly as holy.
Bigg Red says the fraud imPopestor Bergoglio should step down.
This is only the beginning.......................
Is there an ‘impeachment clause’?................
I’m not against civil unions, but I am against gay adoptions.
Pope is not going to say anything about this because all is priest friends in Argentina seem to be homosexual pedophiles.
Holy Spirit, cleanse the filth and corruption from Your Church and send us a good and faithful shepherd.
I’m not Catholic, but this is Anti-Christ behavior.
It rips up 2,000 years of Church teaching that a family unit is a man and a woman.
Actually, you are wrong.
There was extensive legislative action on this subject. By 2017, 38 States had either banned these marriages by legislation or by State Constitutional amendments.
I think that’s next. He kept the ban on married priests.
He doesn’t want anyone interfering with the right to a seminarian or an altar boy.
.. but be ready for opposition.
The Pope that is likely the last pope just sealed his fate.
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