Three top Christian leaders denounced the criminalization of homosexuality on Sunday and offered their guidance on how countries should treat LGBTQ people. Speaking to reporters aboard the papal plane after a trip to South Sudan, Pope Francis, Church of England leader Justin Welby, and Church of Scotland Moderator Iain Greenshields reinforced their perspectives that homosexuality should not be a cause for death or persecution, as it is in South Sudan. “To condemn someone like this is a sin,” Francis said, according to the Associated Press. “Criminalizing people with homosexual tendencies is an injustice.” Greenshields concurred: “There is nowhere in my reading of the four Gospels where I see Jesus turning anyone away.”
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