A few days ago Pope Francis endorsed same-sex civil unions. If I remember correctly, when Francis was archbishop of Buenos Aires, he endorsed civil unions for gay couples as an alternative to same-sex marriages.
I suppose this is a controversial subject for a lot of people, but I’ve never gotten terribly excited about it. The thing that always appeared unfair to me was that if two people are sharing a life together, and they can’t have power of Attorney, in case its needed, for the other person — that just seems wrong. It seems to me that should be their legal right.
Pope Francis said, “Homosexual people have the right to be in a family. They are children of God. You can’t kick someone out of a family, nor make their life miserable for this. What we have to have is a civil union law; that way they are legally covered.”
I’m pretty sure that goes right along with my thinking. I think legal rights are important. As far as “marriage,” that’s something else altogether — it probably becomes more emotional, maybe religious and sometimes just a matter of semantics. If the “union” is legally covered, that’s what’s important — marriage is something to be resolved by the various religions or other such groups. Again, remember what I’ve said here many times — things that I ramble on about are simply my opinions. Agree or disagree, read or don’t read, the choice is yours.
Pope Francis appears to be concerned about of a lot of the right things, like the environment, income inequality, immigration and people the most affected by discrimination. That seems like a good thing to me…..
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