Pope Francis’ new clothes: Why his progressive image is white smoke and mirrors

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4. It's not 'smoke and mirrors' so much as intentional mendacity on the part of his staff, the media

and his needful believers. He delivered a diatribe of hate against equality in Manila, DUers are busily shouting their love for the man who adds 'disfiguring God' to his list of accusations against gay people, whom he already calls disordered, demonically influenced and unworthy of equality.

The 'who am I to judge' quote was pulled from an ugly attack on the 'gay lobby' which Francis said 'is very bad' and any lack of judgement was reserved for celibates with no sexual or emotional relationships, it never meant 'don't judge gay couples' but many people aggressively claimed that it did. They lied, that's all it is, they lied. About important things, to people they see as inferior to themselves.