The Pope recently made some comments about gay people that, to many observers, sounded like a change in the Vatican’s virulently homophobic policies of the past.
“If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?” Francis said in a wide-ranging news conference aboard the papal plane.
The Daily Show’s John Oliver discusses the Pope’s kind new words for gay people, and concludes thusly: “So the policy’s the same, but the tone has changed.”
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“who am I to judge?” Francis said in a wide-ranging news conference aboard the papal plane.” As I recall, he said the very same thing when the Junta he supported dumped bound political prisoners out of their plane over the ocean.
Even if Pope Francis intends to soften the hateful anti-gay Catholic Church rhetoric of the last 20-odd years, his Archbishops and Cardinals — men like the pedophile-protecting Archbishop Dolan — will continue to ensure that gay people are blamed for the impending doom of the entire human race.
I didn’t take his remarks as pro-gay at all, more like “I don’t really want to talk about that. Ask God.”
The pope says one thing and does another. Kind of like Obama in drag.
Very funny! What a curdled prune that Dolan is!