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And greetings. Welcome to the dividing line. Thank you for being patient. We had some software stuff we had to deal with that took a little time today, but

hopefully got through it. It's amazing how much of our lives now spent with such things. No one in the past could have ever understood.

First world problems, I guess they say lots to get to today. Let's start with I saw it's interesting. I saw someone mentioned on Twitter yesterday. I said I said I hope you comment on what Francis said and I'm going what Francis said.

So I had to go looking it up.

And so if you've seen it.

Pope Francis was did an interview yesterday. I think at the Vatican.

Basically saying that homosexuality should be should not be a crime. It's a sin, but not a crime. Now it's interesting. There are a number of things that

that biblically we would say would be sins, but not crimes.

But the question is, has it not been the reality of the experience of Roman Catholic church and the vast majority of nations for centuries.

That homosexuality was both a sin and a crime.

And at that time, Rome said nothing to those nations, which would include Italy.

In fact, I have to wonder, and I'm not sure how you'd even check some like this out, but the Vatican is a nation state, is it not?

As has the Vatican always distinguished between homosexuality as a sin, but not viewed as a crime within its borders.

What about Italy?

Spain, Mexico, many, many places like that.

We all know that it was only a couple decades ago that the Supreme Court throughout all Sodom laws.

And that means that when this nation was founded, homosexuality was a crime.

And this does raise lots of questions right now in the midst of the Christian nationalism discussions,

which no one was having only a few years ago, at least not in any full-throated way.

And it back to Francis, it really demonstrates where he's coming from.

I think any honest person, any honest Roman Catholic will have to go, yeah, that's not where the vast majority of popes have been in the past.

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