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40. Yes. Here's the quote

Mon Apr 15, 2013, 02:22 PM

Apr 2013

Last edited Mon Apr 15, 2013, 03:37 PM - Edit history (1)

edit to note this quote, sourced to an Argentinian wire service, may not be correct.

Made before he was ever selected as Pope - and this was quoted here when he took the position.

Francis is on record stating that women are nothing more than the helpers of men, and are themselves unfit for political office. In a speech against Argentina presidential candidate Cristina Kirchner given in 2007, during the electoral campaign, then Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio said:

Women are naturally unfit for political office. Both the natural order and facts show us that the political being par excellence is male; the Scripture shows us that woman has always been the helper of man who thinks and does, but nothing more.

http://www.examiner.com/article/pope-francis-misogyny-homophobia-bigotry

He's a pig.

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