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July 10, 2015: He blesses a gay couple. Pope Francis wrote in response to a letter from Francesca Pardi, author of the children’s book Why do you have two moms?. Pardi summarized the letter on her Facebook page, saying the pope “hopes for an always more fruitful activity at the service of young generations and sharing authentic human and Christian values.” The pope ended the letter with his “apostle’s blessing” for Pardi and her partner, Maria Silvia Fiengo.

Do you think that’s an “act of love”?

When Pope Francis blessed Apostolic Pentecostal Church member Kim David --- the KY county clerk who refused to issue "gay marriage" licenses --- and thanked her for her courage and told her to stay strong, all the no-good-niks swarmed out and said he really had no clear idea who she was, or what she had done. He was supposedly steered into it and told "Here, bless this lady" by Liberty Counsel and that crafty Cardinal Vigano!

So when Francis blessed this other lady and her "partner" it would be consistent to take the same line: blessing is just his automatic default setting: he didn't really know what they were up to.

It's particularly fishy when Francesca Pardi chooses to "summararize" or "paraphrase" the Pope's letter on her Facebook page; when, if the letter were an explicit endorsement, she would have proudly posted the whole letter as an image, or quoted the whole thing verbatim.

I don't know how Pope Francis got into this very unwise practice of indiscriminate blessing. Blessings are only for the pure. What can he be thinking of? It's like blessing is his all-purpose response!!

Luke 6:28
"Bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you."