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In reply to the discussion: Is Pope Francis Really a Progressive Example? [View all]madinmaryland
(64,931 posts)140. I missed where they said they don't care about gays, women, and children.
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Sorry, it's a meaningless question. He is head of a religious organization not a head of state.
KittyWampus
Dec 2013
#8
Exactly. He excommunicated a priest who advocated for gay marriage and female clergy.
PeaceNikki
Dec 2013
#3
Yes, what?? You think the attendee feeding his dog the sacrament is what got the priest
PeaceNikki
Dec 2013
#52
Don't you see the HYPOCRISY of the pontiff via the censure of “radical feminist” nuns?
PeaceNikki
Dec 2013
#64
We were actually discussing the censured nuns in our continuing "don't forget" saga.
PeaceNikki
Dec 2013
#71
Oh please... corrected? You think it was about the fucking DOG? You are wrong.
PeaceNikki
Dec 2013
#78
" . . . and his public celebration of the Eucharist when he did not hold faculties to act publicly"
rug
Dec 2013
#79
" . . . and his public celebration of the Eucharist when he did not hold faculties to act publicly"
rug
Dec 2013
#89
I'm not either as well. I think he should be held up as someone who is taking a very backward
EOTE
Dec 2013
#18
Your church's website about marriage says 'one man, one woman, God' plan'
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2013
#45
Here is Francis on marriage equality and gay families. Tell me why you see this as
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2013
#24
And yet when asked to point out these changes you claim to see, you snap at me.
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2013
#40
I believe it was you that took exception that I thought he was a positive change.
mmonk
Dec 2013
#69
He talks, the world listens, this is what they hear him say about equal rights for gays:
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2013
#27
It would be if the 'fiscal progressivism' was anything more than rhetoric
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2013
#36
I missed where they said they don't care about gays, women, and children.
madinmaryland
Dec 2013
#140
If Phil from Duck Dynasty gave away a million to feed the poor, would his hate speech
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2013
#31
Francis said this about marriage equality. It is hate speech, like Phil the Duck guy.
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2013
#41
So if I change my name to Goddy McGodster today all I said yesterday is now
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2013
#62
I wish folks would just admit they don't mind the sexism and homophobia and that
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2013
#72
He didn't claim that. I just pointed out an aspect of Church dogma that predates him
Tom Rinaldo
Dec 2013
#75
Have you even read the whole diatribe from his jet which folks distill to 'who am I
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2013
#81
By no standard (other than a highly restrictive internal to high Church leadership one)...
Tom Rinaldo
Dec 2013
#119
But to “not talk about these issues all the time,” for the pope, means silence from the single
PeaceNikki
Dec 2013
#43
Exiled Popes? Dude, I quote Francis from 2010 and you say 'that was then' but
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2013
#77
Here's the thing Tom, you guys need to back off pushing Francis as a voice in our
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2013
#118
"he's come out against everything Scalia has ever stood for"? That's not true.
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2013
#95
I find the organization irredeemable. It's been that way for over a thousand years
Warpy
Dec 2013
#59
Francis himself has built his career on attacking gay people and to claim otherwise
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2013
#57
What would Free Republic be saying about Pope Francis if he were running for the Presidency?
rug
Dec 2013
#46
I see DUers praising his comments against republican/third way trickle-down economics, nothing more.
Kermitt Gribble
Dec 2013
#130
I think you OP is indeed nuanced and a useful starting point for meaningful discussion
Tom Rinaldo
Dec 2013
#101
Well, I do commend Dick Cheney and Rob Portman for supporting same-sex marriage. I no way would I
madinmaryland
Dec 2013
#141
“This to me is one of the big problems with Republicans, is that they only seem to have empathy
PeaceNikki
Dec 2013
#142
What is really ironic, is that 53 years ago we elected the first (and only) Catholic to the
madinmaryland
Dec 2013
#143
An organization that is 2000 years old and has 1 billion members will change VERY slowly
scheming daemons
Dec 2013
#137