Openly gay teen scientist honored by Vatican as positive role model

[sabrina 1]

39. When did a US president, and this is a democracy not a religious institution that has never had

a religious requirement not to do so, finally admit that he was wrong about marriage only being between a man a woman?

I remember petitions and phone calls and emails to the WH to tell him how wrong he was about that basic right being denied to Gays. Eventually he was persuaded to support equal rights for all Americans but it took a lot of time which was hard to understand since he is over 50 years old AND a Democrat. A Religious leader, unlike a US President, has more constraints to make changes.

What this pope has done is to tell tell right wing fundies to stop attacking gays and women and focus on issues that are important to ordinary people such as poverty eg.

He has basically taken the weapon Right Wingers use against Catholics voting for Dems, out of their hands.

He has finally done what no other pope ever did, asked, as Jesus did, that only those who 'are without sin cast the first stone'. This has outraged the fundy right wing and if they are outraged that shows what a blow it is to them, as intended by the pope since they are who he was talking to.



If you don't see the significance of what he is doing then no one here can help you.