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Bluenorthwest

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16. So the Pope, who refuses to accept LGBT and teaches that we must be treated differently than others
Thu Nov 26, 2015, 08:37 AM
Nov 2015

is the walking definition of a bigot, making Mike spot on.
Those of you who endorse the Pope take a position in support of forbidding of condoms to people in African HIV hot zones. For example, Uganda is 44% Catholic, 7.2% of the people have HIV, over 60,000 Ugandans die from AIDS each year, there are over 650,000 orphans created by AIDS in Uganda and Francis, he comes to Congress to announce that he is 'concerned about threats to the family' but he does not mean 650,000 orphans or 60,000 Ugandan dead nor the 1.4 million dead in greater Africa every single year. Francis is concerned with the 'threat' of people getting married.

Is it ethical to ignore that stark reality? DU's Francis fans become angry at those of us who speak about these human beings, who are just as real as you and me. They often say Francis' anti-contraception teachings do not matter because Americans just ignore them 'we all use contraception, the Church does not control us, we just ignore them because we know better' but they fail to talk about how those teaching work in places that are not rich and educated and American.

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