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fried eggs

(910 posts)
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 07:06 PM Apr 2016

Bernie Sanders says he’s a ‘big fan’ of the Pope… hours after renewed anti-gay stance

Pope Francis today released a long-awaited report on ‘the family’ which was initially expected to relax teachings on sexuality – but actually reaffirmed all of the church’s actively anti-LGBT teachings.

In place of any changes to church doctrine, the Pope insisted that the Catholic Church would never consider recognition of “homosexual unions”, and added that gay people should receive “assistance” to bring them back to normality.

The Catholic leader wrote: “As for proposals to place unions between homosexual persons on the same level as marriage, there are absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual unions to be in any way similar or even remotely analogous to God’s plan for marriage and family.”

However, just hours after the report came out Bernie Sanders told MSNBC he will go to the Vatican to see the Pope.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/04/08/bernie-sanders-says-hes-a-big-fan-of-the-pope-hours-after-renewed-anti-gay-stance/


Seems like an odd decision coming from the official gatekeeper of progressivism.
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revbones

(3,660 posts)
1. So, by that logic you hated Hillary until 2013
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 07:08 PM
Apr 2016

when she finally came out for LGBT rights and against DOMA?

fried eggs

(910 posts)
4. 1. I don't hate anyone. I merely asked a question.
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 07:22 PM
Apr 2016

2. Does Hillary market herself as the only true and pure progressive?

 

revbones

(3,660 posts)
15. The OP doesn't have any questions or even any question marks.
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 10:20 PM
Apr 2016

How do you reconcile Hillary's anti LGBT rights stance until 2013 with whatever you are trying to say in this OP then?

 

TM99

(8,352 posts)
5. Be careful,
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 07:22 PM
Apr 2016

they get snarky if you call out their hypocrisy.

Here's another - Clinton is against guns but loves having an NRA lobbyist help fund raise for her campaign.

PeaceNikki

(27,985 posts)
6. The idea that the RCC gives a shit about poverty is hypocrisy.
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 07:24 PM
Apr 2016

Lack of reproductive choice and lack of access to reproductive services are major contributing factors to poverty.

"Mother Teresa was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.”
~Christopher Hitchens

 

Zira

(1,054 posts)
8. It's astonishing he hasn't come around yet, for gays and women becoming priests
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 07:29 PM
Apr 2016

He seems so progressive and good on everything else. I understand him not supporting abortion but I would hope he comes around on that too because it is a serious womens health issue, and needed by women.

 

hellofromreddit

(1,182 posts)
10. Sanders is not the blind idealist Hillary's campaign paints him as
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 07:32 PM
Apr 2016

He's pragmatic and will will work with people where he can agree even if he disagrees on other issues.

That's how things get done.

 

Armstead

(47,803 posts)
12. I guess you;ve missed his statement EVERY TIMNE he has mentioned the Pope
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 08:18 PM
Apr 2016

"I have some disagreements with on, on gay marriage and some other issues, but I admire....."

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