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)
It won’t be long that the Church will have an marriage Mass for homosexuals. They are throwing away 2000 years of church teaching so that 2% of the population can defile each other through the Church.
No, no impeachment clause, but surely he can be compelled to step down. Hoping he will be jailed.
Well the Pope is against capitalism.
I think American Catholic Church members should quit contributing to the Catholic Church so the Pope doesn’t have to take our filthy capitalist money.
The “state” should have little or no involvement with a “marriage.” If people want to contract with each other, that is a legal issue.
If the churches want to do a ceremony...that is fine too.
But it is really none of the States’ business.
Without question or doubt, Pope Francis is an antiChrist. He is a heretic.
Thank you Senator Pope /s
Was he planning to teach them that homosexual sex is a mortal sin that would condemn a person to eternal damnation?
But is he ‘the lawless one’?............
Well, except for THAT part......................
Homosexual men have the same right to enter into a union with a single unrelated woman as any other man. They have been doing it for centuries.
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.
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You misunderstand me. My point was that no legislative body or constitutional amendment made gay “marriage” legal. Quite the opposite.
I think the SCOTUS decision was a hot mess. There is no provision for marriage in the constitution so it should be a states rights issue.
The Pope has three strikes against him: 1) He’ an Argentine; 2) he’s a Jesuit; 3) He somehow missed that part of the Bible relating to Sodom and Gamorrah.
Pope says homosexuals should be covered by civil union laws
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Frankie should be covered with dirt
Step down from being a Pope, kkthx.
Not this one
Christ, save us from this perverse generation.
1 Thess 4:1-8 is clear: those who reject the command against sexual immorality have rejected God.
Even liberal Oregon voted 66% against gay marriage. The Catholic church is now more liberal than Oregon.
Isaiah 5:20 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
The “state” should have little or no involvement with a “marriage.” If people want to contract with each other, that is a legal issue.
If the churches want to do a ceremony...that is fine too.
But it is really none of the States’ business.
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I’d agree with you wholeheartedly if there were not protected classes that use litigation to cram their values down the throats of private businesses and institutions.
Until the day that government is completely (and I mean completely) out of the business of marriage encouragement, protection, and denial, then the people have a right to lobby for whatever government policies align with thier values.
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