Transcript: Read the Speech Pope Francis Gave to Congress

[L. Coyote]

Transcript: Read the Speech Pope Francis Gave to Congress

Here’s a running transcript of his remarks. .....

[Bluenorthwest]

1. He says marriage equality threatens the family.

"Yet I cannot hide my concern for the family, which is threatened, perhaps as never before, from within and without. Fundamental relationships are being called into question, as is the very basis of marriage and the family. I can only reiterate the importance and, above all, the richness and the beauty of family life."

When Republicans say that they are criticized but Francis, he gets lauded. He's worth every penny.

[damnedifIknow]

2. He nailed this

"All of us are quite aware of, and deeply worried by, the disturbing social and political situation of the world today. Our world is increasingly a place of violent conflict, hatred and brutal atrocities, committed even in the name of God and of religion. We know that no religion is immune from forms of individual delusion or ideological extremism. This means that we must be especially attentive to every type of fundamentalism, whether religious or of any other kind."

[L. Coyote]

5. That may be the best bit of all. In isolation, of course. We cannot judge the past by present

is a serious conflict with that though. Thou shalt not kill in not a brand new commandment.

[Bluenorthwest]

7. But his own rhetoric is extremist, he attacks marriage equality in the name of his God.

That's how he closed his speech and that is the main point of his trip here, for that conference against equality with Rick Warren and all. He, who has no family, says my family is a threat to other families, and fuck him for saying that and anyone who excuses it.

You do unto others what you would not allow to be done to yourself, and you call it Christianity. It's hilarious.

[whatthehey]

3. Man for a Head of "State" he sure sounds like a preacher

Since we're always, needlessly, reminded that he's technically the former (assuming a few hundred theocrats in a medium-sized town square constitute, in anything more than nominal niceties, a state because Mussolini thusly bribed their predecesors not to complain about his regime) whenever points about religious entanglements are raised, it would be nice if he sounded like one occasionally.

[snooper2]

4. How about keep religion out of politics around the world dude in white dress?

At the bottom of the page has a kinda creepy looking picture-


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[Mnemosyne]

6. No weirder than the ones of Moon's coronation on March 23, 2004 in the Dirksen Senate bldg. nt