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    Turns out te head of the Catholic Church is a homophobic bigot.

    "Pope Francis met privately in Washington last week with Kim Davis, the county clerk in Kentucky who defied a court order to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, a Vatican spokesman confirmed on Wednesday.

    Ms. Davis, the clerk in Rowan County, has been at the center of a nationwide controversy over whether government employees and private businesses have a legal right to refuse to serve same-sex couples. She spent five days in jail for disobeying a federal court order to issue the licenses.

    “I put my hand out and he reached and he grabbed it, and I hugged him and he hugged me,” Ms. Davis said. “And he said, ‘Thank you for your courage.’ ”

    - NY Times
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    • Husky Wing
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      Editing … He also said it was her "human right" to deny gay marriage. Yes, it's her human right to deny others rights. Ugh.
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      Editing … So much for a good pope. I'm not surprised, but disappointed.
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      Editing … I never thought of him as a good pope, just not a terrible one. Slightly less bigoted than the last.
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      Editing … He also said that gay marriage has the Catholic church's blessing...Argentinean logic at its finest, I tell you
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      Editing … He did? When? Source?
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      Editing … He is a "good pope", and if you don't realize that, you must not understand how ass-backwards the catholic church is. Pope Francis has said that you dont automatically go to hell if you have an abortion. He has ok'd birth control and homosexuals. Of course he is not saying that gay marriage is okay, that'd be "too far" for the conservative member that runs the catholic church. But still, he is almost as good a pope as one could hope for. He is making life better for hundreds of millions of people.
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      Editing … So we should applaud him for being a slightly less awful person with slightly less archaic beliefs than the last dozen guys before him?
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      Editing … ^In short, yes
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      Editing … If you punch disabled people in the face for an extended period of time whenever you see one of them cripples, but then you're like "maybe I should spit on them instead. Punching them does seem a bit too harsh", I'm not going to give you a fucking award for your actions. Bad analogy is bad, but you get the idea.
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      Editing … "Well done! I, too, hate those faggots and finally someone had the courage to stick it to them by not doing the job they get paid for. I'm proud of your homophobic actions!" - some dickhead from Argentina probably
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      Editing … But that's not how it work. It's more like "I've grown and spent my whole life dedicating myself to a belief that says you are allowed to, and should punch handicapped people in the face, but I don't think that's right, and I want to change that, so no one is allowed to hit them anymore, only spitting allowed" Also he has done a lot of good things, he has made the situation of women better than it used to be in the ultra-catholic countries. He is probably most conservative about gays, and he is really liberal even in that compared to basically everyone else. If you can't appreciate small changes in the big frame of time, and expect one man to single handed lot change the minds of a billion people from "god hates fags" to "everyone is cool in my book", you are gravely mistaken. Sorry for incoherence and misspelling, I'm on my mobile.
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      Editing … Baby steps. C- for effort, Francis! Well done *pats on the back*
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      Editing … oh wow, how commendable
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      Editing … Well shit, I don't know what to tell you. The world evolves one baby step after another. If you can't deal with that, try to avoid bigoted jerks. It's hard, but doable.
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      Editing … Don't worry, I don't expect to confront the pope
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      Editing … state doesn't have a right to force you to marry people you don't want. And it's called private business for a reason. As for what Not Important said I was going to agree with him. But you can't say it's ok to spit at handicapped people and somehow claim to be pro handicapped people. Such a rule has less to do with altruism and more concerned more with how non-handicapped people should behave. Also "I've grown and spent my whole life dedicating myself to a belief that says" i.e. religion is the problem, homophobia is merely a symptom of the problem. Also come to think of it, if he wanted to change people's minds about gays, then why did he support those who deny same sex couples marriage? "expect one man to single handed lot change the minds of a billion people" It's one thing if he couldn't, it's another if he didn't want to. He clings to sexual discrimination and therefore so will everyone else.
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      Editing … But you can't just negate all the good he does based on one bad thing. That's like saying that Stalin was a great man because he got the Soviet Union into the position of a superpower. But yeah, he has a lot to work on if he actually wants to make things better, that's for sure.
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