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The Pope has a great deal of influence world wide with 1.2 Billion Catholics. In fact, he has much more influence than any other religious leader in today's world and certainly more so than any Evangelical.
There are almost 70 million registered Catholics in the U.S. It's the largest Christian denomination not only in the world but in the United States.
It does not matter what emphasis man places on the Pope. He is not an authority on spiritual matters and the Word speaks for itself on this issue.
I have yet to discover an evangelical church that isn’t anti-gay. The most liberal it gets is “God loves you but you have to remain celibate for life, marry an opposite sex partner, or do conversion therapy. The last church I went to before I left Christinanity was liberal for an evangelical church and they said from the pulpit that a gay married couple would have to get divorced and take a vow of celibacy before they could join the church.
One of the evangelical distinctives is they view the Bible as literal and infallible and it’s almost unheard of for such a church to accept LGBT people. Those that do such as some Cooperative Baptist Fellowship churches are no longer evangelical.
It is God who says the homosexual act is an abomination.
I attend Mass just about every Sunday at a church focused on social justice, so I'm not some uber conservative Catholic. Still this is just too much. The part of him saying "God created him..." is a direct contradiction to Catholic teaching that goes beyond homosexuality.
I attend Mass just about every Sunday at a church focused on social justice, so I'm not some uber conservative Catholic. Still this is just too much. The part of him saying "God created him..." is a direct contradiction to Catholic teaching that goes beyond homosexuality.
I think the gay dude may have misquoted or misunderstood the Pope. Back to St. Augustine, it's standard Catholic doctrine that everyone is born sinful.
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