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Thanks for the clarification.Reasonable Catholics can differ about whether homosexuality should be illegal, because it raises questions of Church/state separation. The main sticking point from a Catholic perspective is the death penalty. Previously, the death penalty was seen as the last resort: if the person was so dangerous they could not be safely contained, then death was morally acceptable as societal self-defence. If you had a functioning prison system, then the death penalty was immoral. On that analysis even based Benedict would have told them to knock it off. But when he was pope (2005-13) Uganda’s law only punished homosexuality with life imprisonment. He met with Ugandan politicians advocating that, BTW, and made no public condemnation of the law as far as I can tell.
Francis is a very different Pope. Last year Uganda’s law was changed to the death penalty. A few years ago Francis changed Catholic teaching to forbid the death penalty totally. He also has stated that the state should not persecute gays, so two objections for the price of one. Francis BTW has said troons can be godparents in some cases. Please note that papal infallibility doesn’t apply to anything and everything a pope says; it doesn’t to the troon stuff and there are stronger opposing positions put by bishops. It will be interesting to see how much of the Francis experiment survives his pontificate.
I must have been misremembering, unless it was Francis after all, it sounds like it could have been an Anglican.
I know there was a big falling out between the African Church leaders and Church leaders in the UK, the CofE seems to be increasingly pozzed over the past ten years.
The Catholic Church has always been quite anti Troon, thats why that Heretic Bishop came as such a shock.
At the very least he should be excommunicated for that shit, it goes against all morality to openly enourage mentally ill people to butcher their bodies for a fetish.
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