“Criminalizing people with homosexual tendencies is an injustice,' Pope Francis tells reporters on the papal plane.
“Criminalizing people with homosexual tendencies is an injustice," Pope Francis tells reporters on the papal plane.ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Pope Francis, the head of the Anglican Communion and top Presbyterian minister together denounced the criminalization of homosexuality, and said gay people should be welcomed by their churches.
“If he [Pope Francis] is coming here and he tells us that marriage of the same sex, homosexuality, is legal, we will say no,” Michael Makuei Lueth, South Sudan’s information minister, said after the pope’s AP interview and ahead of his visit. Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Church of Scotland's Iain Greenshields speech out in defense of the LGBTQ community to the the media on Pope Francis' plane from Juba to Rome on Sunday.The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, recalled that LGBTQ rights were very much on the agenda of the Church of England, and said he would quote the pope’s own words when the issue is discussed at the church’s upcoming General Synod.
The broader Lambeth Conference has come out twice opposing criminalization, “But it has not really changed many people’s minds,” Welby said.
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