Pope Francis decreed once again the old chestnuts that being gay is a sin, leading a gay lifestyle is a choice and the church will never bless gay unions or call them a marriage.
Sigh.In the style and voice of Oprah Winfrey: “Who’s (still) having THAT conversation?” Apparently, Pope Francis and the Holy Roman Catholic Church, Oprah.
Still.The church’s continued preoccupation with sexual orientation is disturbing, especially given how little the bible actually talks about same-sex relations.
Furthermore, in the context of the church’s own history of decades of sexual abuse and cover-up amongst its ranks (various reports calculate over $3 billion has been paid out in restitution globally to date), it is incredibly tone deaf.