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Pope Francis Erects and Fortifies Walls
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/warren-j-blumenfeld/pope-francis-erects-walls_b_9266746.htmlRegarding same-sex sexuality, Pope Francis not merely supports but publicly buttresses a wall of separation, which according to the Roman Catholic Church Catechism 2357 states:
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Francis reinforced his Church-imposed wall in front of more than 1,000 families in the Philippines during a recent trip when he warned that "[t]he family is threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life." These forces, he said, are attempting the "ideological colonization of the family." Among other forces, this was also a reference to marriage for same-sex couples.
The Pope laid extra rows of bricks and mortar with his swipe at LGBTQ people at another weekly Vatican audience when he gave his unqualified blessing to a Slovakian referendum outlawing same-sex unions and adoption rights for same-sex couples. He proclaimed: "I greet the pilgrims from Slovakia and, through them, I wish to express my appreciation to the entire Slovak church, encouraging everyone to continue their efforts in defense of the family, the vital cell of society."
So El Papa has hardened and extended the already unfathomable Catholic walls by denying LGBTQ people (his "children"
the rights of marriage and adoption and to their sexuality and gender identities and expressions; denying them the benefits, privileges, and responsibilities of legalized partnerships and families; and denying them the right to be named and serve as godparents. How "Christian" is this?
"Basing itself upon Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that homosexual acts are gravely disordered. They are contrary to natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of love [i.e., children]. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved."
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Francis reinforced his Church-imposed wall in front of more than 1,000 families in the Philippines during a recent trip when he warned that "[t]he family is threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life." These forces, he said, are attempting the "ideological colonization of the family." Among other forces, this was also a reference to marriage for same-sex couples.
The Pope laid extra rows of bricks and mortar with his swipe at LGBTQ people at another weekly Vatican audience when he gave his unqualified blessing to a Slovakian referendum outlawing same-sex unions and adoption rights for same-sex couples. He proclaimed: "I greet the pilgrims from Slovakia and, through them, I wish to express my appreciation to the entire Slovak church, encouraging everyone to continue their efforts in defense of the family, the vital cell of society."
So El Papa has hardened and extended the already unfathomable Catholic walls by denying LGBTQ people (his "children"
the rights of marriage and adoption and to their sexuality and gender identities and expressions; denying them the benefits, privileges, and responsibilities of legalized partnerships and families; and denying them the right to be named and serve as godparents. How "Christian" is this?
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LGBT!!! 
YOUR sig line
Do you seriously not know the difference between a sigfile and a DU comment?
has nothing to do with guns? If it has nothing to do with anything, why is it there?
