The walk-back

Remember when Pope Francis said that he was for LGBTQ civil unions?

And remember when I posted here that nothing would come of that? Here is the inevitable walk-back from the Vatican ...

Vatican says Pope's comments on same-sex civil unions were taken out of context

[...] "It is clear that Pope Francis was referring to certain provisions made by states, and certainly not to the doctrine of the Church, which he has reaffirmed numerous times over the years," the letter [from the Vatican] explains ...

The church has a vested interest* in trying to insure that gay people cannot have legal families like the rest of us ... spouses and children. ... and this is why they lobbied against making marriage equality legal in the US. The church will not recognize civil marriage equality, much less marry gay people in the church. And the church will not allow LGBTQ people to adopt children from Catholic run facilities. The party line is that gay relationships are "intrinsically disordered" and that basically, God doesn't want gay people to get married.

The Pope is fully on board with this stance - do the research if you don't believe me. Stop saying he is a liberal. Stop hoping he is going to make any meaningful changes for the better in the church. He wouldn't be where he is if he wasn't a party man.

This is one of the many reasons I've given up on the church.

* About the vested interest .... I'll ask you to imagine how few Catholic priests we would have if the church couldn't convince gay Catholic men that their only option for having a family was joining the priesthood.