Gay People Should be absorbed in the society. -Pope Francis

The Pope's position on gay people appears
to contrast with that of his predecessors.
Pope Francis has said gay people should not
be judged or marginalised.
Speaking to reporters on a flight back from
Brazil, he said: "If a person is gay and seeks
God and has good will, who am I to judge
him?"
The Pope's remarks are being seen as much
more conciliatory than his predecessor's
position on the issue.
Turning to the issue of women priests, he
said the Church had spoken and had
said"no", but the role of women should not
be restricted.
"We cannot limit the role of women in the
Church to altar girls or the president of a
charity, there must be more," he said in a
wide-ranging interview with Vatican
journalists.
Five months after he took over from Pope
Benedict, he said gay people should be fully
accepted in society.
""The Catechism of the Catholic Church
explains this very well," Pope Francis said.
"It says they should not be marginalised
because of this but that they must be
integrated into society."
But he condemned what he described as
lobbying by gay people.
"The problem is not having this orientation,"
he said. "We must be brothers. The problem
is lobbying by this orientation, or lobbies of
greedy people, political lobbies, Masonic
lobbies, so many lobbies. This is the worse
problem."