Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio has been chosen as the new pope.
He will be called Francis.
USA Today:
Couldn't prevent Argentina from becoming
the first Latin American country to legalize same-sex marriage or stop
its president, Cristina Fernandez, from promoting free contraception and
artificial insemination. When Bergoglio argued that gay adoptions
discriminate against children, Fernandez compared his tone to "medieval
times and the Inquisition."
Bergoglio called gay marriage "the destructive attempt to end God's plan."
Bergoglio began “I write these lines to
each of you who are in the four monasteries of Buenos Aires. The people
of Argentina will face in the coming weeks, a situation whose outcome
may seriously injure the family. This is the bill on marriage for same
sex. “
Then he added, “At stake are the lives of many children who are
discriminated against in advance by depriving them of human growth that
God wanted to given with a father and a mother. At stake is a total
rejection of the law of God, engraved in our hearts as well”.
The Archbishop stated flatly “we are not naive: it is not just a
political struggle is a destructive attempt to God’s plan. It is not
just a bill (this is only the instrument) but a ‘move’ from the Father
of Lies that seeks to confuse and deceive the children of God.”
GLAAD President Herndon Graddick on election of New Pope:
"For decades the Catholic hierarchy has
been in need of desperate reform. In his life, Jesus condemned gays zero
times. In Pope Benedict's short time in the papacy, he made a priority
of condemning gay people routinely. This, in spite of the fact, that the
Catholic hierarchy had been in collusion to cover up the widespread
abuse of children within its care. We hope this Pope will trade in his
red shoes for a pair of sandals and spend a lot less time condemning and
a lot more time foot-washing."
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