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Jake Horowitz
In a very strange update courtesy of PinkNews.com, which bills itself as Europe’s largest gay news service, a Catholic priest has apparently called on the conclave to elect a gay man to be the next pope, to avoid association with pedophilia.
Don Andrea Gallo, who is an outspoken advocate of LGBT right, had this to say to Italy’s Radio 24: “A homosexual pope would be a magnificent thing. The essence of the Gospel is that we are all God’s sons and daughters and we are all equal as God’s children. “The homosexual priest must be free to express his identity and his sexuality, because repression leads to pedophilia.”
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