15 June 2016

The Huffington Post: Bishop Calls Out Homophobia In Religion... And He Isn't Blaming Islam

Robert Lynch, a Catholic bishop with the Catholic Diocese of St. Petersburg, FL, discussed the tragedy in Orlando committed by gunman Omar Mateen in a blog post Monday.

Lynch noted three points, including the need for stricter gun control laws, whose loopholes allowed Mateen to purchase an AR-15 despite having been on the terror watch list, and a pushback against Islamophobia.

His second point focused on religion — not just Mateen’s religion of Islam — and how it perpetuates bigotry against the LGBT community, which was the target in Sunday’s hate crime. 

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