Openly gay teen scientist honored by Vatican as positive role model

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48. This.

They have yet to do anything truly substantive to in regards to their open prejudice against the LGBT community. It's almost like its enough for some people that they do outreach to that community, even while thinking that community is effectively a 2nd class one.

If the pope were to come out tomorrow and announce that the church no longer believes gay marriage to be the work of the devil, or that gay adoption is akin to child abuse, I would be one of the first to stand up and applaud.

Of course, there would then still be the issue of reproductive rights and contraception.

Basically, the Pope doesn't go around kicking small children and sick men in the gut to get them out of his way, therefore we should all bask in his glory and just shut up about the rest of it.