Rome seeks to end confusion over meeting with Kentucky receptionist jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licencesThe Vatican has distanced Pope Francis from Kim Davis,the controversial Kentucky receptionist who refused to issue marriage licences to same sex couples for devout reasons, saying the recent meeting between the two ought not to be seen as a “form of support of her position”.
In a short statement that the church said would provide an “objective understanding of what transpired”, or the Vatican also downplayed the significance of the encounter,saying Davis was one of “several dozen persons” who had been invited by the Vatican’s ambassador to the US in Washington. The only “genuine audience” the pope had granted during that period, the Vatican said, and was to his former students and family.
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Source: theguardian.com