Jesus teaches us that the masterpiece of society is the family: the man and the woman who love each other. In many countries, the number of separations is increasing, while the number of children is in decline. Christians do not marry only for themselves. They marry in the lord in favor of all the community, of society as a whole.”
— Pope Francis, perhaps trying to sway the upcoming SCOTUS ruling on same-sex marriage, in a public speech made April 30
Russell Murphy
It’s amazing the number of “biblical scholars” that put words into Jesus’ mouth.
Link Ludington
……and that has no bearing whatsoever upon the validity of same-sex civil marriage…..
Christina Holloway
Technically if you leave out the whole one man and one woman part, it’s no different than same sex marriage, go figure. It’s about two people who love each other and want to spend their loves together creating a family.
Xzamilio
Congratulations, The Advocate… you managed to destroy your credibility as a magazine by making this asshole Person of the Year when most LGBT people saw through this garbage from the start. This man has NEVER strayed from the antiquated path of Catholicism
http://shallowvoices.blogspot.com/2015/04/my-voice-pope-francis-never-accepted.html
Clark35
LOL I’m not surprised the pope said this since he’s the pope and head of the Roman Catholic church, and yet his sheep claimed he’s so “liberal” and “progressive” that he’s actually for LGBT rights and same gender marriage when most of us knew all along he is not.
Avery Alvarez
Yeah, it’s not compassion, empathy, sympathy, or any of those beautiful things which form our social society that’s the masterpiece.
It’s the institution of heterosexual marriage, by which priests breed more sex toys for their perverse needs.
And no, christians mating doesn’t do anything for the rest of society. They do it for themselves. For selfish reasons. They want a mini-me that they can project all their failed hopes and dreams on. There’s nothing altruistic about it.
Realitycheck
One word “overpopulation” after all we are only 7.2 billions on the planet and many cannot feed themselves, with an estimated 10-13 Billions by 2100.
And right now the planed doesn’t have enough resources to feed everyone.
ait10101
I guess the Pope hasn’t read the Bible. If he has, then he is a masterful liar. In either case he is not qualified for the job, assuming it has anything to do with the Christian religion (which is a big assumption).
Mark Figenbaum
LOVE IS LOVE. / NOH8
Josh John Brimble
where in the bible does it say that?
Max Frazier
The Vatican orgies are the Mona Lisa of rationalizing hypocrisy because you’ve got a God given itch in your pants.
Jaime-Arturo Rodriguez Luevano
Go to la chingada, pope!
Rosalynn D'Angela
Charles Jenkins
Hypocrite!
SteveDenver
Too bad the Poop doesn’t read the FECKIN’ BIBLE. Jesus said a man should abstain from marriage and devote his full life to God, but if he cannot avoid sinning, then he should marry.
SteveDenver
@Link Ludington: One of my favorite comments about equal marriage and religion is: “Let Christians stop divorce first.”
DonW
Yeah, Jesus, who hung out with a dozen single men, after telling them to abandon their families and sell everything to follow him, is the avatar of marriage. Says a putatively celibate man in a dress.
Miss Understood
The number of children born needs to decline. This planet has a severe overpopulation problem. The Catholic Church believes in scaring people away from contraception. They are directly causing poverty and suffering. It’s disgusting.
Jean-Claude Poulin
Such bullshit! The bible itself says that Jesus told his apostles to leave their own wives and children and follow HIM. That they would become fishermen of men. That everyone is family in life and that we are ALL brothers and sisters.(Yadi Yada) Jesus himself left his family behind as an example. This whole heterosexual nuclear family crap was just made up by the Roman empire and their religious control branch (the Vatican) in order to increase the population of the Empire . So it’s high ime we stop being fed this absolute lie.
James Hart
Why is anyone surprised that the pope is Catholic?
James Hart
@Charles Jenkins: I don’t think the pope is a hypocrite. I just think that the media got it wrong when they claimed that he was pro-gay. It was the media that mislead everyone (including the Advocate), not the pope.
Giancarlo85
@Realitycheck: Luckily birth rates are dropping so that projection may not happen. In Bangladesh, they managed to reduce birth rates by lending small loans to women to start businesses. It is called microlending. With more prosperity and independence, birth rates were cut. But this is all off topic.
As far as the pope, I don’t care what he says. I come from a Catholic country of Colombia. We are nearing a legalization of same sex marriage even with a right wing government of President Santos (Uribe previously was in favor too). Funny how our right wing government is less right wing than democrats.
Several Catholic countries have legalized same sex marriage, obviously not giving two shits about what the church says.
Alex Cameron
Why do Catholic priest abuse children let’s see I smell bullshit hypocrisy !!I’m gay male a wiccan witch
Michael Jestila
Jesus was born a Jew, raised a Jew, lived as a Jew, and died a Jew, why aren’t you ?
Desert Boy
The new Pope sounds an awful lot like the old Pope.
Natalie Kennedy
I didn’t read this crap in my bible.
Luis H. Lopez
Marriage is about property some use religion to push an antigay agenda !
Jeff Eiselman
If I didn’t hear it for myself from Jesus I’m not buying it.
blackhook
That is choice coming from the pope & his entourage of fruity priests, who love to parade around in their best dresses & party hats. This “enlightened” pope who also still oversees exorcisms at the vatican & spews medieval Catholic voodoo. How can anyone be dumb enough to still $upport these bizarre bozos?
Sidney Davies
My aunt is a Christian and has been married 9 times.
Clark35
@Max Frazier: Do you think this pope is a ped0 like others were?
Craig Christley
They mistook Jesus’s sarcasm is probably more like it!
Errol Semple
Why did Jesus never marry?
Rick Collier
Don’t remember Jesus saying that but I wasn’t around then but apparently Pope Francis was!
Ricky Redick
and he fails to mention that he did 3 choir boys .
Caoimhin Mikael Lycke
Empty barrells make a lot of noise. He’s a stooge!
Brady Kay
What you all are failing to recognize is that he in no way said anything insulting about same sex marriage…put your pitchforks down!
Michael Miller
LOL! Actual reality on the ground (aka Truth) says it’s only 50% successful at best, and you could probably shave off a good additional portion who keep themselves trapped in a miserable situation.
Jim Buccini
Taken out of context. Did anyone actually read the quote? He’s commenting on the number of separations in heterosexual marriage. (I’m not acknowledging his views on marriage aren’t flawed, but let’s not read into things here.)
Jim Buccini
If you want to understand the Pope’s actual take on gay marriage, read this. It’s much more clear and you don’t have to draw erroneous conclusions.
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1500200.htm
Lee-Gwen Booth
Says a man who can’t marry because of his job speaking under the authority of another man who allegedly never married.
Giancarlo85
@Jim Buccini: Don’t care. And coming from a catholc country, don’t care about the catholic church. Maybe you should see the links between this Pope and the Argentine military junta on the 1970s. Might change your mind about him.
John P Farinhas
52% divorce rate begs to differ!
Homo Erectus
I thought the Masterpiece of Society was that painting of 13 dogs at the Last Supper.
martinbakman
Christian hayseeds call heterosexual couples the gold standard for parenting, because……well , just because!
KM201
How anyone could think that this Pope is a progressive is beyond me. He can’t even come out against police brutality by Catholic officers towards African Americans or supporting labor union rights in Catholic organizations. The myth will rattle away as the stories of drug orgies and money laundering scandals come out once more and people leave the church in droves. Good riddance!
Barb Kipper
I respect him, but he does not rule the world.
Eloweez Rainbowz
O so he talks to Jesus on the reg! Can I get his number? Cause that mother fucker owes me 5 bucks
Giancarlo85
@KM201: This Pope had connections to Rafael Videla himself. I knew he wasn’t a progressive from day one.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-truth-behind-pope-francis-breaking-the-silence-the-catholic-church-in-argentina-and-the-dirty-war/5327049
And he has never answered for this.
When Videla died two years ago, he didn’t say a word about it either.
This Pope was never a progressive. Not now and not 40 years ago.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/francis-and-videla.jpg – Pope Francis with Videla himself.
Ray Flanary
This coming from a church that doesn’t allow priests to marry, which is also unbiblical. Biblical marriage consists of multiple wives and concubines on the side.
KM201
@Giancarlo85: Figures. I’m amazed that out of the thousands of people of who swarmed his pope mobile in adulation, that not one of them decided to confront him on this. Our media is such a joke in the way it covers for him on so many of these horrible problems. If we had a truly journalist minded media, he would have been pressed on all of these things a long time ago. Instead, it’s a day in, day out love fest where everyone buys into a belief that’s he so wonderful, when in truth he is not. After all, that’s why pedophile supporter Timmy Dolan said that the church had a “PR” problem rather than a substantive policy problem. If they just got that pesky press to back off doing their jobs and just wrote about how wonderful the pope is, everything would be OK. Apparently he was right because we have heard none of this in the media lately. Same thing with New York’s corrupt Catholic pedophile supporting police commissioner Bill Bratton. Pay no mind to the hand in police brutality he has shown throughout the United States. Pay attention to what he tells you and don’t report on anything other than his myth. A bunch of nazis, the whole lot of them. They will get their retribution soon enough. If there is a God in this universe, he or she certainly wouldn’t be on the side of these lying fascists.
Giancarlo85
@KM201: The Pope is tied to a regime that threw people out of planes into the pacific ocean, and priests were on those planes reading victims their final rites. Nobody ever covers this. The Pope was a key figure in the church during the military junta and he met with Videla and Viola multiple times.
This man is one of the biggest hypocrites.
Curty
Jesus never mentioned gay people. He certainly spoke nothing about gay marriage or to deny gay couples marriage, so what teaching is he speaking about??? :-/