Pope Francis said yesterday that homosexuals and transsexuals should be treated with respect, but that teaching gender theory is unacceptable "indoctrination" of young people, the Reuters website reports today (October 3, 2016).
"When a person [who is gay] arrives before Jesus, Jesus certainly will not say, "Go away because you are homosexual," Francis said.
The pope -- who made world headlines in 2013 when he uttered his now-famous phrase "Who am I to judge?" when he was asked if the Catholic Church should accept gay members -- said that as a priest, bishop, and even now pope, he had ministered to people with homosexual tendencies as well as some who were not able to remain chaste, as the Church asks them to be.
He added, "I accompanied them, I brought them closer to the Lord. I never abandoned one of them. That is a fact. People must be accompanied just like Jesus accompanies them."
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