Pope, backed by Anglican and Presbyterian leaders, denounces anti-gay laws
returning home from South Sudan, where they took part in a three-day ecumenical pilgrimage to try to nudge the young country’s peace process forward., in which he declared that laws that criminalize gay people were “unjust” and that “being homosexual is not a crime.”
“To condemn someone like this is a sin,” he said. “Criminalizing people with homosexual tendencies is an injustice.” “I wish I had spoken as eloquently and clearly as the pope. I entirely agree with every word he said,” Welby said. The broader Lambeth Conference has come out twice opposing criminalization, “But it has not really changed many people’s minds,” Welby said.
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