Pope Francis ...
For those who are always going on about how liberal and progressive and enlightened Pope Francis is ....
Vatican Says Catholic Church Cannot Bless Same-Sex Marriages
The Roman Catholic Church cannot bless same-sex marriages, no matter how stable or positive the couples' relationships are, the Vatican said on Monday. The message, approved by Pope Francis, came in response to questions about whether the church should reflect the increasing social and legal acceptance of same-sex unions ...
For those who will say that this is just the CDF, that Franncis himself is ok with marriage equality ... nope.
From the time he was an archbishop, before he became pope, up until the present (see his encyclical), Francis has himself maintained that the marriage of gay people is the work of the devil and against God's plan.
For those who say Francis really would like to approve marriage equality but he can't because Christianity stands against it ... again, nope.
Many Christian denominations affirm the worth of gay people and of marriage equality: the Episcopal church, Lutherans, Presbyterians, Quakers, UCC, Unitarians, Methodists, etc. Pope Francis and the Catholic church have made the choice not to. They have made the decision to poop on gay people for basically all eternity.
Why? One reason, I think, is that it's very hard for a church whose leader is supposedly infallible, to change its mind, very hard to admit a mistake if it has told people it's the only source of Truth. And then there's that pesky priest shortage that's alleviated by self-hated gay Catholic men - The Gay Church: Thousands of priests are closeted, and the Vatican’s failure to reckon with their sexuality has created a crisis for Catholicism
What's it like instead in a church that accepts everyone, like the present Episcopal church? You can have a bishop, a gay mattied bishop (Gene Robinson), actually discuss the subject in a town hall ...
Vatican Says Catholic Church Cannot Bless Same-Sex Marriages
The Roman Catholic Church cannot bless same-sex marriages, no matter how stable or positive the couples' relationships are, the Vatican said on Monday. The message, approved by Pope Francis, came in response to questions about whether the church should reflect the increasing social and legal acceptance of same-sex unions ...
For those who will say that this is just the CDF, that Franncis himself is ok with marriage equality ... nope.
From the time he was an archbishop, before he became pope, up until the present (see his encyclical), Francis has himself maintained that the marriage of gay people is the work of the devil and against God's plan.
For those who say Francis really would like to approve marriage equality but he can't because Christianity stands against it ... again, nope.
Many Christian denominations affirm the worth of gay people and of marriage equality: the Episcopal church, Lutherans, Presbyterians, Quakers, UCC, Unitarians, Methodists, etc. Pope Francis and the Catholic church have made the choice not to. They have made the decision to poop on gay people for basically all eternity.
Why? One reason, I think, is that it's very hard for a church whose leader is supposedly infallible, to change its mind, very hard to admit a mistake if it has told people it's the only source of Truth. And then there's that pesky priest shortage that's alleviated by self-hated gay Catholic men - The Gay Church: Thousands of priests are closeted, and the Vatican’s failure to reckon with their sexuality has created a crisis for Catholicism
What's it like instead in a church that accepts everyone, like the present Episcopal church? You can have a bishop, a gay mattied bishop (Gene Robinson), actually discuss the subject in a town hall ...
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