{"id":54927,"date":"2016-06-28T23:08:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T23:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/crux_pope_backs_apology_to_gays_but_says_its_not_just_them\/"},"modified":"2016-06-28T23:08:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T23:08:06","slug":"crux_pope_backs_apology_to_gays_but_says_its_not_just_them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54927","title":{"rendered":"(Crux) Pope backs apology to gays, but says it\u2019s not just them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis on Sunday essentially backed a cardinal\u2019s suggestion that Christians owe LGBT persons an apology for past mistreatment or neglect, but suggested apologies are probably in order to other constituencies as well, including the poor, exploited women and divorced families.<\/p>\n<p>Francis was speaking in response to a question that linked the call for an LGBT apology to the recent massacre at Orlando\u2019s Pulse nightclub.<\/p>\n<p>The pontiff said gay persons must not be discriminated against, conceding that there are \u201csome traditions and cultures that have a different mentality,\u201d\u009d and said apologies are in order whenever there are \u201cpeople we could have defended and we didn\u2019t.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cruxnow.com\/vatican\/2016\/06\/26\/pope-backs-apology-gays-says-not-just\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis on Sunday essentially backed a cardinal\u2019s suggestion that Christians owe LGBT persons an apology for past mistreatment or neglect, but suggested apologies are probably in order to other constituencies as well, including the poor, exploited women and divorced<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54927\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,42,186,168,133,154,184,436,177,637,129,108,364,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-church-history","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-care","category-pastoral-theology","category-pope-francis","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}