( Pope Francis greets a Vatican Swiss Guard as he arrives for a morning session of a two-week synod on family issues, at the Vatican, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014.)
VATICAN CITY The contentious debate over the Vatican's ground-breaking overture to gays has taken a new twist.
The Vatican on Thursday released a new English translation of the draft report of bishops debating family issues. The new translation significantly alters the section about gays, diminishing the welcoming tone from the original Italian.
The report has been highly criticized by many conservative English-speaking bishops Americans and Africans mostly primarily because of the welcome extended to gays.
The original text contained an entire section "Welcoming homosexuals," that asked the church to provide gays a "fraternal space" and said their unions constitute a "precious support" for the partners. The new English version is entitled "Providing for homosexual persons," speaks only of "fellowship" and "valuable support."
The Vatican said English-speaking bishops requested the changes.
(A disappointed Francis the Talking Mule after he's forced to walk back a comment regarding the complete acceptance of homosexuals, lesbians and other perverts in the new Catholic Church.)
What Christ didn't do was to say that there is nothing wrong with rape, murder, pedophilia, homosexuality, incest, drunkenness, bestiality etc. etc. Gays and pedophile are alike in that they want people to say that what they are doing is not a sin, which is a complete lie, and The Holy Bible clearly states this undeniable fact.
Christ can forgive any sin, but only if you denounce the sin for the evil that it is! A murderer can even be forgiven for his/her sin, but not if the murder goes before God and says, God you are wrong, murder isn't a sin it is just a fun activity, and oh by the way God can you forgive me. It doesn't take a rocket science to know how God will deal with such evil and sinful behavior!