The Pope Continues to Court Gays, Their Friends and Families


Recently I wrote about the Pope demoting a Cardinal who said priests can't officiate gay weddings because they "can't bless sin." It is apparent the Pope knows the Catholic position that gay marriage is a sin, but he does not want clergy to bring attention to that indefensible notion. He thinks it best if the sin thing is never mentioned again anywhere by anyone. 

A few days ago he carried the "gay people, we Catholics have nothing bad to say about you" a notch higher. At a Vatican gathering he admonished parents of gay/trans children to respect and love those children. Sin has evaporated into thin air. 

It is obvious to the Pope the church's position against gay marriage is folly. He knows also there is no way to change it. It is a Catholic strategy that when the church or a Pope is wrong, officials do not correct the incorrect position but just ignore it and carry on. The wrong and right positions simply exist together. 

I've mentioned "the Galileo problem." The pope at the time declared the sun revolved around earth, not visa versa. After Galileo proved this was wrong and was punished by the Pope to house arrest for the rest of his life, the Vatican about 20 years ago concluded the Pope was not in error but there was a problem with lower level staff who practiced "bad theology." Maybe in a few hundred years the current position against gay marriage will be looked back on as "bad theology" by staff.

Make no mistake, theology is influenced by money. What could be more obvious than the switch made by many Protestant denominations after Roe. Before they were in favor of abortion rights. This included the conservative Southern Baptist Convention.  After Roe they saw money going to Catholics and went over to anti-abortion. In time the money will be in gay marriage. Catholics and lagging Protestants will jump on board.

The first indication Big Religion will switch to favor gay marriage is the way Pope Francis in handling the issue. He did not get to be Pope by being stupid about politics.   


 

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