Catholic Homophobia and a Pope’s Propaganda
Catholic colonialism hurts LGBTQ people
I delayed this story about Pope Francis’s homophobia until after the U.S. elections
That I had to write that sentence is part of the story I need to tell, a story you might not want to hear if you’re a liberal American or European Catholic. But we LGBTQ people need your help. LGBTQ people in the developing world need it desperately.
Remember the uproar on October 23 when a film screened at a festival in Rome seemed to show Pope Francis endorsing same-sex civil unions and LGBTQ families?
Homosexuals have a right to be part of the family. They’re children of God and have a right to a family. — Pope Francis
LGBTQ people all over the world celebrated as mainstream media reported a “stunning softening” of the Church’s anti-LGBTQ views. The Washington Post gushed, calling Francis’s remarks a “break from the Catholic Church’s official teaching [that] mark his clearest support to date for the issue.” The New York Times rushed to scoop with a breathlessly misleading headline and a story so poorly reported that much of it matched word for word the same press release I received from…
