@jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world • 4 months agoPope Francis again uses slur for gay priests in the Vatican: Italian mediawww.usatoday.comexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1154arrow-down16
arrow-up1148arrow-down1external-linkPope Francis again uses slur for gay priests in the Vatican: Italian mediawww.usatoday.com@jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world • 4 months agomessage-square23fedilink
minus-square@OldWoodFrame@lemm.eelinkfedilink73•4 months agoAn 87 year old man using a slur, I feel like you get a slight pass sometimes for being old and not knowing a formerly-commonly-used word has become derogatory. But he used it, got called out, issued an apology, and then used it again. Yikes.
minus-square@pearsaltchocolatebarlink21•4 months agoI mean, he’s 87. he probably forgot about the first time.
minus-square@VelvetStorm@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink7•4 months agoThen he shouldn’t be in charge of a religion.
minus-square@state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilink8•4 months agoOh, I missed the point where religions where headed by sane, competent men of sound mind and body.
minus-square@pearsaltchocolatebarlink4•4 months agoNo, he shouldn’t, but that’s because Christianity is one of the most successful scams in human history, not because he’s old.
An 87 year old man using a slur, I feel like you get a slight pass sometimes for being old and not knowing a formerly-commonly-used word has become derogatory.
But he used it, got called out, issued an apology, and then used it again. Yikes.
I mean, he’s 87. he probably forgot about the first time.
Then he shouldn’t be in charge of a religion.
Oh, I missed the point where religions where headed by sane, competent men of sound mind and body.
No, he shouldn’t, but that’s because Christianity is one of the most successful scams in human history, not because he’s old.