Laws discriminating against gay people are 'unjust,' the leader of the Catholic Church has said.
But he has a"complicated approach" to the topic, according to LGBTQ advocacy group The Human Rights Campaign.told reporters on the way back from his first tour as pontiff that"we shouldn't marginalize people" for being gay.
"They must be integrated into society," he said as he returned to the Vatican from Brazil."If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?""We must be brothers. The problem is lobbying by this orientation, or lobbies of greedy people, political lobbies, Masonic lobbies, so many lobbies. This is the worse problem," the newly elected pope said at the time.
Speaking in 2020, Pope Francis said gay people"have a right to be in a family," who could be"legally covered" by a"civil union law."In 2018, the pontiff said that the"question of homosexuality is a very serious one" and urged gay priests and nuns to"leave the priesthood or the consecrated life rather than live a double life.
It added that legal protections of"homosexual unions or placing them on the same level as marriage" would be an"approval of deviant behaviour." Update 1/25/23, 5:25 a.m. ET: This article has been updated to include further background information.
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