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Kim Davis shocked that Pope Francis has a gay friend
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Yayo Grassi says he’s ‘500% sure’ pope did not initiate meeting as Vatican distances itself from Kentucky clerk
An openly gay former student of Pope Francis who visited the pope during his recent trip to Washington has said he was surprised Francis also met the Kentucky county clerk who gained attention for refusing to issue same-sex couples marriage licenses.
The pope’s meeting with Washington resident Yayo Grassi, his boyfriend and a few others came to light on Friday as the Vatican was distancing itself from claims the pope’s meeting with the clerk, Kim Davis, was an endorsement of her stance on same-sex marriage.
Grassi, 67, met Francis more than 50 years ago when the future pope taught at his all-boys school in Argentina. They reconnected in 2008 and since becoming pope, Francis has met Grassi and his boyfriend of 17 years twice, once in Rome and most recently in Washington, Grassi said.
Grassi, who came to the US in 1978 and runs a catering business, spoke at his home on Saturday.
Asked what he thought of the pope’s meeting with Davis, he said: “I thought, ‘This is really strange. This is not like him.’”
Grassi said he told friends they should not rush to judgment and that he didn’t think they had all the facts. The Vatican spokesman, the Reverend Federico Lombardi, declined to say who invited Davis or what the pope knew of her case but such encounters are arranged by the Vatican ambassador and his staff, not the pope’s delegation or the US bishops’ conference.
Grassi said that after the Davis story came out and he was contacted by the media, he thought: “Perhaps this is the time to defend him. I owe him that as a friend, not because he is a friend but because I know part of the truth.”
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...-davis-meeting
Not her getting denied like thaf. ™
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