Today the Vatican was doing damage control about the so-called meeting the Pope had with anti-marriage equality Kim Davis. New reports say that the Pope met with one of his former students, Yayo Grassi, who is gay, and the student's partner:
Grassi said that Pope Francis taught him in literature and psychology classes at Inmaculada Concepcion high school in Sante Fe, Argentina, from 1964-1965.
Grassi said the Pope has long known that he is gay, but has never condemned his sexuality or his same-sex relationship. Grassi said he and Iwan (he declined to disclose his last name due to privacy concerns) had previously met Francis in Rome.
Grassi said he and the Pope don't agree on same-sex marriage, but that they do continue their friendship.
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.
I don't know what all this means, or even if it is important, but it does put an interesting twist on the Kim Davis situation:
Davis' lawyers had portrayed the papal meeting as an endorsement of her cause. After several days of questions and culture-war sparring, the Vatican said that was not the case.
"The Pope did not enter into the details of the situation of Mrs. Davis, and his meeting with her should not be considered a form of support of her position in all of its particular and complex aspects," Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said in a statement issued Friday
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