Pope Francis said on Sunday (Feb 5) that laws criminalising LGBT people are a sin and an injustice because God loves and accompanies people with same-sex attraction. Pope Francis, who made his remarks in response to a reporter's question aboard the plane returning from a two-country trip to Africa, receive
Pope Francis said on Sunday that laws criminalising LGBT people are a sin and an injustice because God loves and accompanies people with same-sex attraction.
"The criminalisation of homosexuality is a problem that cannot be ignored," said Pope Francis, who then cited unnamed statistics according to which 50 countries criminalise LGBT people"in one way or another" and about 10 others have laws including the death penalty for them. "This is not right. Persons with homosexual tendencies are children of God. God loves them. God accompanies them ... condemning a person like this is a sin. Criminalising people with homosexual tendencies is an injustice," Pope Francis said.
Pope Francis mentioned his now-famous phase from soon after he became pope in 2013 that he could not judge people with same-sex tendencies who are seeking God. He also noted that while visiting Ireland in 2018 he said that parents could not disown their LGBT children, but had to keep them in a loving family.
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