The Democrats who are telling us he's such a swell fella right now because, well, "Hey, ya know? It's just teh gays he's discriminating against, hehheh, winkwink", would be screaming bloody murder and calling for the Pope's head on a pike.
I'm just pointing this out to illustrate out how LGBT are really still considered not quite really human second class citizens, not worthy of equality, dignity, and respect in the eyes of so many who believe themselves to be enlightened Democrats.
Maybe we can judge it to be a manifestation of "Straight Privilege"? Or maybe it's just a manifestation of plain old homophobia and transphobia.
Whatever it is, I wish people realize it's just as evil for the Pope to discriminate against LGBT (and women, for that matter) as it would be for him to discriminate against any and every other minority, and there are no excuses.
It's totally not at all cool, or just, to excuse and justify the hate because it's "just teh gays" being hated, or because it is the Pope spreading the hate.
The Catholic Church has done significant harm, including murder, torture, enslavement, and imprisonment, to millions of people in the past 1700 or so years, including, and especially, LGBT. And Junipero "The Whipmaster" Serra is now a saint? Who will Francis canonize next, Hernan Cortez, another "heroic" aggressive oppressor and enslaver of thousands of First Nations people?
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