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William D. Lindsey

And the comments just keep pouring in to my email box and my Facebook feed, people crushed and angry that the pope chose to meet with Kim and Joe Davis and Mat Staver while he was on a U.S. tour preaching mercy, and, we were told, encouraging the rest of us to rise above the culture-war fixations:

This is from a friend of mine who has a truly remarkable record of working for social justice for many years now in my state, a highly regarded minister:

The fact that Pope Francis met with Kim Davis, and that he did so secretively, is beyond disappointing.

From another wonderful friend of mine, a gay person who’s not Catholic, who long since gave up on religion, but who found the pope inspiring up to now:

When I saw the news that he had dissembled, and that…