Pope Francis calls for civil union laws for same-sex couples
10/21/20
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from The Washington Post,
10/21/20:
Pope Francis has called for the creation of civil union laws in a new documentary, giving his clearest support to date for the rights of same-sex couples while breaking from the official teaching of the Roman Catholic Church.
“What we have to create is a civil union law,” the pope says in the film, released in Rome on Wednesday. “That way they are legally covered.”
Francis’s comment does nothing to alter Catholic doctrine, but it nonetheless represents a remarkable shift for a church that has fought against LGBT legal rights — with past popes calling same-sex unions inadmissible and deviant.
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