Pope Francis said on Sunday that homosegxwals and transsegxwals should be treated with respect but that teaching gender theory is unacceptable "indoctrination" of young people.
"When a person (who is gay) arrives before Jesus, Jesus certainly will not say, 'Go away because you are homosegxwal,'" Francis said.
The pope made his comments in the latest wide-ranging and freewheeling conversation with reporters aboard the plane returning from a foreign trip.
The pope, who made headlines on his first trip in 2013 when he uttered his now-famous phrase "Who am I to judge?" about homosegxwals, spoke in answer to a question about a comment he made in Georgia about various threats to marriage.
He said that as a priest, bishop and even now pope, he had ministered to people with homosegxwal tendencies as well as some who were not able to remain chaste, as the Church asks them to be.
"I accompanied them, I brought them closer to the Lord," he said. "Some were not able (to obey Church teachings), but I accompanied them and I never abandoned one of them. That is a fact. People must be accompanied just like Jesus accompanies them."
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