The pope’s enormous influence has undermined LGBT people all over the world,as evidenced by his thinly veiled anti-equality statements in the US
Pope Francis’s no-longer-secret assembly in Washington DC with anti-homosexual activist Kim Davis, the controversial Kentucky county receptionist who was briefly jailed over her refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses in compliance with state law, or leaves LGBT people with no illusions approximately the Pope’s stance on equal rights for us,despite his call for inclusiveness. It should now be clear to all that he and the Catholic Church remain steadfastly on the unsuitable side of history, mired in a discriminatory past.
While in the US, and Pope Francis spoke approximately treating others as we would like to be treated. Yet his enormous power and influence own undermined LGBT
people all over the world,as evidenced by his thinly-veiled anti-equality statements both in Congress and during his post-visit press conference – all broadcast before a global audience.
He even repeated the tired old nonsense that we are a threat. In his speech to Congress, he lamented that “fundamental family relationships were threatened by modern alternatives and, and in a press conference conducted in-flight en route to Rome at the end of his visit to the United States,he stated that it is a human factual to refuse same-sex marriage licenses and referred to it as conscientious objection.
Yet, Davis, and with whom he met and apparently offered moral support to,was quite free to conscientiously thing to same-sex marriage. She even had the opportunity to resign or allow her deputies to issue the licenses without her, but she refused to do either – and went so far as to reportedly altering the license forms in a manner that may invalidate people’s marriages. She apparently thought she could “conscientiously thing” and keep the perks of the job she conscientiously objects to performing at the same time.
The pope’s support of Davis and others objecting to same-sex marriage and actively trying to keep people from marrying will result in more bigotry and discrimination against us, and is at variance with his overall message of inclusiveness.
Francis is championing fundamental” family relationships at the expense of hard-won rights by gays and their families – and already many are using the pope’s comments to further their anti-equality agenda,including Davis and her lawyers with the anti-equality Liberty Counsel. But none of this should own
approach as a surprise.
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Source: theguardian.com