The Pope, Homosexuality and Abortion in Brazil
By Julio
Severo
As reported
by Daily Mail, “The pope has said that he ‘will not judge’ gay priests. Speaking
to reporters on a flight back from his week-long visit to sexually permissive
Brazil, Pope Francis said he ‘would not stand in judgment’ of gays in the
Vatican and that they should not be discriminated against. The pontiff’s
remarks about gays mark a more conciliatory approach than his predecessor.
Benedict signed a document in 2005 saying that men with deep-rooted homosexual
tendencies should not be priests.”
Speech about not
judging gay priests is a surprise, considering that the massive scandal
involving pedophilia in the Catholic Church is largely linked to homosexuality
among priests.
But the bigger
surprise, at least to pro-life leaders in Brazil, is that socialist Brazilian
President Dilma Rousseff is about to sign into law a pro-abortion bill, and the
pope did not address any specific message about this urgent situation in
Brazil. He left Brazil without speaking up against this imminent threat.
As an evangelical
Christian, I think that the pope could make his controversial remark on
homosexuality in another time. The absolute priority right now is to speak up against
the imminence of abortion legalization in Brazil.
Why did not he
speak?
Portuguese version of this article: O
Papa, a Homossexualidade e o Aborto no Brasil
Source: Julio Severo in English: www.lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com
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