Homosexuality and religion, the pope says yes

For years we have been talking about homosexuality and religion without anyone taking a real position in this area. On the one hand there are conservative Christians who consider homosexuality something abominable or against nature, on the other hand there are those who prefer not to speak on a subject that is too delicate and seem to pretend that it almost does not exist.

And then there is Pope Francis who has displaced everyone, going down in history as the first pope who is in favor of love between people of the same sex. Pope Francis in a recently released documentary says that homosexual people should be protected by the laws on civil unions: “Homosexual people - he says - have the right to be in a family. They are children of God and have a right to a family. Nobody should be thrown out or made unhappy about it. What we need to create is a law on civil unions. This way they are legally covered. I fought for this ”.

Homosexuality and religion: the pope's words

The pontiff's words are not addressed to Italy and its regulations on the subject, but to the world. His is a broad discourse that wants to sensitize the Church within itself on a ground first of all. Delicate and on which not everyone speaks the same language. There were also the moving moments of the film, the Pope's phone call to a homosexual couple with three small dependent children. In response to a letter in which they showed their embarrassment in bringing their children to the parish. Bergoglio's advice to Mr. Rubera is to take the children to church anyway regardless of any judgments. Very beautiful then the testimony of Juan Carlos Cruz, victim and activist against sexual abuse present at the Rome Festival together with the director. “When I met Pope francesco he told me how sorry he was about what had happened. Juan, it is God who made you gay and he loves you anyway. God loves you and the Pope also loves you ”.

However, attacks against the pontiff were not lacking. Frontali, from inside the college of cardinals, with the conservatives Burke and Mueller complain that the Pope's openness to same-sex couples generates confusion in the doctrine of the Church; the dioceses are more vague, such as that of Frascati, whose bishop Martinelli has produced himself in a brochure distributed to the faithful in which he defines the recognition of homosexual civil unions hoped for by Francis as “problematic”. The American Father James Martin, a Jesuit like the Pontiff, a supporter of LGBT families who fully approves the opening of the pope and the church to all without distinction, is a voice out of the chorus.