'Who Am I To Judge?'

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As many of you have probably already seen in the news, Pope Francis, the new head of the Catholic religion, had this to say;

“If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?”

www.nytimes.com/2013/07/30/wor…

I know it doesn't initially seem like much, but to me it's the tip of a slow-moving progressive iceberg. This guy has won serious brownie points from a lot of people I know, and this is probably the first time the Vatican has earned anything but sarcastic applause from me.

I'm actually surprised nobody else had made a journal on this subject. As always, discussion is encouraged :)
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He said that just to make him and the catholic church look good. And I bet there's some catch behind this. And I guess is because the catholic church is losing followers in Brazil.

The pope is against same-sex marriage. It shows in a letter he wrote in 2010 when Argentina was about to legalize same-sex marriage:

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According to British journalist Edward Pentin:


He made the statement in a letter addressed to each of the four monasteries in Argentina, asking the contemplatives to pray “fervently” that legislators be strengthened to do the right thing.


He wrote: “In the coming weeks, the Argentine people will face a situation whose outcome can seriously harm the family. . . .

“At stake is the identity and survival of the family: father, mother, and children. At stake are the lives of many children who will be discriminated against in advance and deprived of their human development given by a father and a mother and willed by God. At stake is the total rejection of God’s law engraved in our hearts.”


Cardinal Bergoglio continued: “Let us not be naive: this is not simply a political struggle, but it is an attempt to destroy God’s plan. It is not just a bill (a mere instrument) but a ‘move’ of the father of lies who seeks to confuse and deceive the children of God.”


The cardinal also noted that “today the country, in this particular situation, needs the special assistance of the Holy Spirit to bring the light of truth on to the darkness of error, it need this advocate to defend us from being enchanted by many fallacies that are tried at all costs to justify this bill and to confuse and deceive the people of good will.”

Source:
www.catholic.com/blog/jimmy-ak…

This pope has a prejudice against gay people and the view of the catholic church about homossexuals didn't change.