Joe.My.God. LGBT News
Via email from the Family Research Council:
Pope Francis told reporters on the Vatican plane that laws that make it illegal to engage in same-sex intercourse are a “sin” and an “injustice,” because homosexuality “isn’t a crime.”
While his comments were strictly about anti-sodomy laws — such as the ones America had before the Supreme Court struck them down in 2003 — they add to the pile of papal quotations frequently taken “out of context” to give moral cover to the LGBT sexual revolution.
Leave aside the fact that none of his predecessors objected that homosexuality — or, as the Christian tradition calls it, sodomy — was illegal in the Roman Empire since at least the sixth-century Code of Justinian and became a capital offense after the Roman Catholic Council of Nablus in 1120 A.D.
More concerning were the remarks the pope left unsaid. Pope Francis’s comments did not contain a shred of pastoral concern for the souls of people living the homosexual lifestyle. Traditionally, the church has ranked sodomy as one of the four sins that cry out to Heaven for vengeance.
The man who regards himself as the leader of the world’s Christians left aside spiritual concerns to talk politics with the Associated Press.
In this case, moral apostasy was an ecumenical affair. The pope’s words were wholeheartedly embraced by the leader of the Anglican Communion, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, whose Church of England recently wrote a groveling letter of “apology” to all LGBT people.
A third member of Pope Francis’s cohort on the plane — the Rt. Rev. Iain Greenshields, the Presbyterian moderator of the Church of Scotland — told the AP, “There is nowhere in my reading of the four Gospels where I see Jesus turning anyone away.” Well, there was that one time, with the whips.
Pope Francis denounces the criminalization of homosexuality and says gay people should be welcomed by their churches. https://t.co/Rhg8EJqp5K
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 5, 2023