Pope Francis will not judge gays, OK with them being priests

[redrumloa]

On Gay Priests, Pope Francis Asks, ‘Who Am I to Judge?’

Striking a breathtakingly conciliatory approach to a hot-button issue that has divided Catholics, Pope Francis on Monday said that he would not judge priests for their sexual orientation. “If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?” Francis said, according to media reports.

 

[cecilia]

he seems like a nice guy, but really, it's the same shitty religion and that will never change.

plus, the people going into the priest job are fewer and fewer and they can't afford to reject anyone

 

[faethor]

@Cecilia,
I think this article speaks well to the problems there ---
If you buy into Pope Francis’s pseudo-tolerant & pseudo-progressive rhetoric, you’re gullible

 

[cecilia]

@Cecilia,
I think this article speaks well to the problems there ---
If you buy into Pope Francis’s pseudo-tolerant & pseudo-progressive rhetoric, you’re gullible

of course. I know catholics who are all dreamy eyed about this pope. They aren't stupid people but they are blinded by religion.

trying to get people to be skeptical and rational is one of those never ending endeavors of the human species

 

[Robert]

The Daily Mash sums this religious pish up perfectly:

Who am I to judge the Pope, says gay man

30-07-13
A GAY man has said that although Pope-ish acts are bad, a Pope-ish orientation is not.

He carries a special book/folder​

In what his friends claim is a softening of his stance on Popes, 38-year-old gay chef Tom Logan claimed he was fine with them as long as they didn’t do any Pope stuff.
He said: “If a person is a Pope but has good will, who am I to judge them?
“And it would be even more ridiculous if I were to say that then continue by telling Popes how to behave.
“After all I am just a bloke, albeit a bloke with a funny hat – a chef’s hat. Actually that does make me a bit special, so listen up.”
Speaking from behind the vaguely pulpit-like oven at the restaurant where he works, Logan said: “It’s fine for a man to have Pope-ish feelings, as long as he does not act on them in any way. Or lobby for religion.
“You could argue that telling a Pope not to do any Pope behaviour, like taking mass or dressing up in robes, is essentially the same as telling them not to be a Pope. But it is not.
“Don’t even try to argue with me, or I will wave this spoon in an intimidating manner.”
Logan’s colleague Emma Bradford said: “Because Tom’s very sexually frustrated he’s gone a bit funny and developed a weird belief system. Basically he thinks he is a spokesman for this invisible being called ‘Gorgonzola’.
“He doesn’t realise that for a religion to be proper it has to have been made up a long time ago.​

 

[cecilia]

"I will wave this spoon in an intimidating manner.”

 

[faethor]