{"id":5500,"date":"2013-07-30T02:35:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T18:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5500"},"modified":"2013-07-30T02:35:49","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T18:35:49","slug":"repostpope-francis-on-gays-who-am-i-to-judge-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2013\/07\/30\/repostpope-francis-on-gays-who-am-i-to-judge-them\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::Pope Francis On Gays: Who Am I To Judge Them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Pope Francis has had a busy week at World Youth Day in Rio as he visited his slums and prisons, blessed the Olympic flag and brought three million people to Copacabana Beach for a final Mass on Sunday morning.<br \/>\nNow he has made another headline, this time when the pontiff said, &#8220;Who am I to judge a gay person?&#8221;<br \/>\nWhile taking questions from reporters on the plane back to Rome, Francis spoke about gays and the reported &#8220;gay lobby.&#8221; According to the Wall Street Journal, the Pope&#8217;s comments about homosexuality came in the context of a question about gay priests.<br \/>\nThe pontiff broached the delicate question of how he would respond to learning that a cleric in his ranks was gay, though not sexually active. For decades, the Vatican has regarded homosexuality as a &#8220;disorder,&#8221; and Pope Francis&#8217; predecessor Pope Benedict XVI formally barred men with what the Vatican deemed &#8220;deep-seated&#8221; homosexuality from entering the priesthood.<br \/>\n&#8220;Who am I to judge a gay person of goodwill who seeks the Lord?&#8221; the pontiff said, speaking in Italian. &#8220;You can&#8217;t marginalize these people.&#8221;<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/07\/29\/pope-francis-gays_n_3669635.html\">Pope Francis On Gays: Who Am I To Judge Them?<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis has had a busy week at World Youth Day in Rio as he visited his slums and prisons, blessed the Olympic flag and brought three million people to Copacabana Beach for a final Mass on Sunday morning. Now he has made another headline, this time when the pontiff said, &#8220;Who am I to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2013\/07\/30\/repostpope-francis-on-gays-who-am-i-to-judge-them\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::Pope Francis On Gays: Who Am I To Judge Them?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}