The Catholic Church is trending and you know that can’t be good for the gays

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The Vatican issued a decree Monday stating the Catholic Church will not bless same-sex unions as God “cannot bless sin.” What a shocker.

The move caused both the Catholic Church and the Vatican to trend on Twitter, which can almost certainly never be a great sign.

Pope Frances stamped his approval on the two-page explanation put out by the Vatican’s orthodoxy office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

The document explains that while the church can welcome and bless gay people, it draws the line at healthy, committed relationships. God bless.

Those unions, it argues, are not part of God’s plan and are most certainly not part of the institution of marriage.

God “does not and cannot bless sin: He blesses sinful man, so that he may recognize that he is part of his plan of love and allow himself to be changed by him,” it said.

LGBTQ Catholics were understandably a bit disheartened by the move. And many plan to simply ignore it.

“Catholic people recognize the holiness of the love between committed same-sex couples and recognize this love as divinely inspired and divinely supported and thus meets the standard to be blessed,” Francis DeBernardo, executive director of New Ways Ministry said in a statement.

Pope Francis has previously stated he supports gay couples…

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