I pondered whether or not Pope Francis can be trusted on LGBT issues in a post this morning. If I was leaning towards answering "No" to that question this morning, tonight the answer is a resounding "No"! Why? It turns out that the videos shown at the Vatican during Pope Francis' meeting with a gathering of American anti-gay hate group leaders were the handiwork of Mark Regnerus, the discredited "researcher" who was found testimony was found to be borderline fraudulent by a federal judge in Michigan. My blogger friend Jeremy Hooper connected the dots and blew the Vatican's cover. Here are highlights from Good As You:
A few months back, I played a clip where Mark Regnerus of the infamously shoddy study that hoped to discredit gay parents mentioned he was filming videos around the world. Today, Baptist writer and activist Denny Burk answers the question of what videos he was filming.Yes, that's right: He was filming those anti-gay videos that I have been showing you all week. You know, the ones from the pointedly discriminatory Vatican conference that has been going on for the past three days? Those anti-gay, propagandistic clips come courtesy of the very same man who tried to sway the public with an anti-gay, propagandistic study.What a truly bizarre choice. Like almost too bizarre to be believed, frankly. It seems that the Vatican isn't only courting "culture war"—it's begging for one.
I can only hope that Andrew Sullivan and those like him who are having near orgasms over Francis' supposed movement to change the Catholic Church will stop gasping and open their eyes. As I have said, NOTHING has changed under Francis and my bet is that nothing will other than much slicker PR. Meanwhile, I continue to wonder when
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