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Originally Posted by IrishLake
Francis is still a little too conservative for me (a comment he's made in the past about adopted children of gay couples was a form of child abuse rubbed me wrong), but I doubt we ever see the Catholic church be accepting of gay lifestyles.
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Back in Argentina, Archbishop Bergoglio supported gay civil unions and told his priests to do so as well. He also asked the government for more comprehensive civil union laws. He just asked for the civil unions not to be called marriage. When the government disregarded civil unions and started to lobby for gay marriage, he did become the strongest voice against it.
As for the adoption quote, he didn't say "abuse," he called it "discrimination against children," since, from the Church's perspective, adoption is a right of the child (every child has the right to be raised by loving parents). No couple, not even heterosexual couples, have the right to adopt. Of course, for the Church, by "loving parents," they mean man and woman. "Every child has to right to have a mother and a father." For him, adoption of gay couples discriminate against this right of the child.
Right or wrong, he is indeed more open to dialogue than other church leaders, at least on this issue.