Pope Francis Met With Same-Sex Couple Day Before Kim Davis
The Vatican today is making clear that Pope Francis isn’t endorsing he views of Kim Davis and, at the same time announcing a meeting that took place with a same-sex couple.
The day before Pope Francis met anti-gay county clerk Kim Davis in Washington last week, he held a private meeting with a longtime friend from Argentina who has been in a same-sex relationship for 19 years.
Yayo Grassi, an openly gay man, brought his partner, Iwan, as well several other friends to the Vatican Embassy on September 23 for a brief visit with the Pope. A video of the meeting shows Grassi and Francis greeting each other with a warm hug.In an exclusive interview with CNN, Grassi declined to disclose details about the short visit, but said it was arranged personally by the Pope via email in the weeks ahead of Francis’ highly anticipated visit to the United States.
“Three weeks before the trip, he called me on the phone and said he would love to give me a hug,” Grassi said.
The meeting between Grassi and the Pope adds another intriguing twist to the strange aftermath of Francis’ first-ever trip to the United States. Since news broke on Tuesday of Francis’ meeting with Davis, conservatives have cheered the seemingly implicit endorsement, while liberals have questioned how much the Pope knew about her case.
In a statement on Friday, the Vatican said that the meeting with Davis was not intended as a show of support for her cause and said “the only real audience granted by the Pope at the nunciature (embassy) was with one of his former students and his family.”
“That was me,” Grassi said.
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5 responses to Pope Francis Met With Same-Sex Couple Day Before Kim Davis
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Suzanne McFly October 2nd, 2015 at 15:17
Well the Vatican better write up their response to KD cause right now all we have are the words of a moron in regards to this meeting.
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HillMerk October 2nd, 2015 at 15:20
Rightwing hypocrites were celebrating the biggest hypocrite Kim Davis and giving props to Pope Frank for the supposed endorsement of hate. Now watch their hatred fuel even higher cause of this photo.
GiveP*****achance! October 2nd, 2015 at 15:21
he was the lucky pierre!
Roctuna October 2nd, 2015 at 17:56
If he spoke to her individually, which I kind of doubt, I think it’s very likely his words were more in line with Arc99’s ideas of a few days ago. The pope visited and offered advice to many troubled people while he was here.