Pope Francis said laws criminalizing homosexuality are “unjust,” calling homosexuality a sin for Catholic worshippers, but not a crime.
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Pope Francis said laws criminalizing homosexuality are “unjust,” calling homosexuality a sin for Catholic worshippers – but not a crime. “Being homosexual isn’t a crime,” Francis said in an interview this week with The Associated Press.
He noted that Catholic bishops around the world support laws criminalizing homosexuality and discriminating against LGBTQ individuals. He said the leaders should "have to have a process of conversion,” and opt for “tenderness, please, as God has for each one of us.”
“We are all children of God, and God loves us as we are and for the strength that each of us fights for our dignity,” Francis said. The pope said the Catholic Church should work to end laws criminalizing homosexuality.
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Nature’is Nature & Natural is Natural”you are what you are’& how you born’birth’mind’&’feelings.Entirely Upon your own feeling’/fact is fact”pure is Pure’& Un’Natural is Un’natural”.best to hide’and fear of maker & creator.ask for forgiveness.
It is a part of nature. Over 1500 species exhibit homosexuality. God created some animals homosexual. They did not make a choice. God gave them the instinct to do this. If it was an abomination God would never allow it in animals.
In one study they found a homosexual penguin couple who took turns sitting on an abandoned egg. And once it hatched., They took turns feeding it. This may be the very good reason God made a portion of humans to be homosexual to take care of the abandoned children of Heterosexuals.
Ask for Forgivness”mercy on human”bad is bad”good is good”and male is male female is female.
Pope is right homosexuality is a sin. Read Romans chapter 1 versicle 26 and 27.
@Bus Blu Eating shellfish is also a sin. Leviticus 11. A woman not marrying her rapist is a sin. Deuteronomy 22:28.
Talking to the dead is a sin Deuteronomy 18:11 (hope you’ve never said words to a dead relative)
It’s a sin so touch a woman while she’s on her period Leviticus 11:1-15:33.
It’s a sin for women to talk in church.1 Corinthians 14:34.
Do you follow all those?
The bible has been mistranslated.
CORINTHIANS 1, TIMOTHY 1 AND ROMANS1
The word homosexual wasn’t even inserted into the Bible until 1946. And even those Scholars agreed that they misinterpreted and it should not have been interpreted as homosexuals, and was changed back to sexual perverts in 1971. But many Bibles printed from 1946 to 1971 still contain the misinterpreted word “homosexual”.
Paul could have used many words if he intended to blast gays and lesbians. Yet Paul used none of those available words, choosing instead to coin an interesting new word, arsenokoitai.
Over the thousands of years, it has been changed. We must look at the “original” text. That word is an unusual word. It’s a new word; we don’t know of any other instances of the word until Paul coins the word in 1 Corinthians 6 and 1 Timothy 1.
It’s a compound word: “arsen” means man and “koite” or “koitas” or “koitai”—depending on a verb or a noun—means bed. It’s quite clear that Paul has coined this word from Leviticus 18 and 20. Even if you don’t know any Greek, you could find online or pull up the Greek transliteration of these two verses. Look at the Septuagint, which is the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, and then just look at the Greek for the necessary passage in Leviticus 18 and Leviticus 20 and you’ll see there (and in fact the words are right next to each other in Leviticus 20) this word for man (“arsen”) and the word for bed (“koitai” or “koite”). And if we are so bold to stretch this to encompass gay sex, how can we possibly stretch it so far as to include lesbians?
We must be careful of taking a word, a sentence or even a passage without looking at the context of the entire chapter. During the time Paul wrote this, he was traveling and came across these people performing public orgies in Pagan rituals to appease their gods. Of course this is totally unlike a same-sex loving committed monogamous relationship. Arsenokoitai is never used in any extant Greek literature with our modern meaning of homosexual. The best evidence available today indicates that arsenokoitai described shrine prostitutes. That is the learned opinion of Philo, a contemporary of both Jesus and the apostle Paul and one of the most widely read Jewish intellectuals in the first century. Because Paul, AD 4 – 67, and Philo of Alexandria, 20 BC – AD 50, were contemporaries and because Paul was well educated and widely read, it is reasonable to believe that Paul was familiar with the writings of Philo, a fellow Jew and public intellectual, although not a fellow Christian. Philo understood Moses, in Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13, to be condemning shrine prostitution. Philo’s understanding that arsenos koiten refers to shrine prostitution is 2000 years old. It was a Jewish belief with which the Apostle Paul was familiar because Paul coins a new word describing temple prostitution using the Septuagint Greek words of Leviticus 20:13.
Believing that Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13 refers to shrine or temple prostitution is not a modern belief invented by gays to alibi their “sin”.
It is the ancient Jewish and Christian belief for thousands of years.
So this research reveals that “man” tweaked the word of God to control mankind. At that time procreation was an utmost necessity, as it empowered nations to build up strong armies and increase their wealth. This was their way of suppressing homosexuals.
And some Autocratic/Communist countries still do this today for the same reasons but the difference is today homosexuals are able to have children through in vitro fertilization and also fill the gap for those children abandoned in orphanages through adoption.
Since YouTube won’t let me post the links, I suggest you search,
” 1946 the movie”, and you will see how they explain this in greater detail.
@Olisko Not for Catholics new testament overides the Law.
@Olisko thats the old covenant
@Olisko That’s the Old Testament. Jews follow those, but Christians follow the new commandment: to love God and love others.
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Cool good luck’work hard
Hard work & Luck
Worst Pope ever
LOVE THIS POPE❤️🙏
What@Comment!!figure face for nation!!joke Laugh a Loud!!what’s going on’world on wrong direction!!wish human understand the human Value
No no no no…LIAR
read your Bible folks
Pray nonstop
There’s alot of hate in you heart Jeanine the hell fires will rejoice when you join them
Ser homosexual es un pecado así lo dice la Biblia ❤
Just be a good person and forget everything else
I’m not for homosexuality but that was well said.
Would love to be at his last interview…… (God)