Pope: Gay people okay

[Lief 🗽]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324354704578635401320888608.html

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[minionofmidas]

He would know, having lived his life among them. [/runs, hides]

[dead0man]

I'm really liking this new Pope.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I'm really liking this new Pope.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

I don't see how this is really THAT exciting... I mean, it's kind of the equivalent of saying "left-handed people can be priests... but don't you dare write with it"

[Kitteh]

This doesn't seem any different than the official Catholic position has been for a while now, which is that there's nothing inherently wrong with people who have "homosexual inclinations", but that "gay acts" are still a sin, and that "practicing homosexuals" should be treated with a hate the sin but love the sinner attitude. Which is a mildly more nuanced position than "gays are evil" but not really tolerant or positive in any way.

[DC Al Fine]

This doesn't seem any different than the official Catholic position has been for a while now

Journalists are pretty tone deaf when it comes to Christianity.

[Silent Hunter]

I don't see how this is really THAT exciting... I mean, it's kind of the equivalent of saying "left-handed people can be priests... but don't you dare write with it"

I would point that Catholic priests are meant to be celibate anyway.

[Vosem]

Steps in the right direction...