Pope Francis Calls Right-Wing Christian Fundamentalism a Sickness

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157. And how do you explain the Rome conference in November against marriage equality, Francis the

keynote speaker, invited attendees included Tony Perkins of Family Research Council, Maggie Galagher of NOM, people from the Heritage Foundation, and a long list of anti gay activists from around the world.

Those of you who defend the Pope by claiming absurdly that he is more tolerant toward LGBT people refuse to talk about the actual facts such as this conference arranged by the Vatican. Hekate in this very thread ignored this material, simply pretended it was not shown to her, that she was not asked to explain how it fits into her assertions. To exploit LGBT people then refuse to discuss it with LGBT people is stone cold bigotry. Call it what you like, but this is what you are defending:

Vatican Strengthens Ties with Evangelicals and Mormons Against Gay Marriage
"The presence of American evangelicals and the LDS Church was particularly notable. Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church, and Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, each gave speeches, and representatives from the Heritage Foundation and the Family Research Council in Washington attended. President Henry Eyring of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ first presidency spoke and Elder Tom Perry of the LDS’s Quorum of the Twelve also joined. In the United States, this trio of faiths has worked together to stand against the government’s Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate, but it was the first time they were coming together at the Vatican to talk about marriage.....
Pope Francis did not spearhead the colloquium, as many casual observers might think. It was organized and led by German Cardinal Gerhard Müller, a strong conservative voice at the Pope’s Synod on the Family last month. Müller is the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican group that sponsored the event. Still, Pope Francis gave an opening address to attendees, in which he affirmed the Church’s teaching that children have a right to a mother and a father."
http://time.com/3597245/vatican-evangelicals-mormons-gay-marriage/

Tony Perkins, boss to Josh Duggar said this about the event:
“The atmosphere was almost euphoric as the attendees from six of the world’s seven continents broke from the historic gathering to return to their respective nations renewed in their stand for marriage. The courts may declare otherwise, and Hollywood may depict its demise, but the union of a man and a woman as the natural and enduring definition of marriage will endure until the end.”

So that's all groovy according to the Francis defenders, but they won't bother to say exactly why Tony Perkins is so groovy in this context.....