The thoroughly odd story of Kim Davis’ meeting with the Pope just gets better and better. Turns out, the Pope’s only private audience while in the United States was with — get ready — a gay couple.
The day before Pope Francis met anti-gay county clerk Kim Davis in Washington last week, he held a private meeting with a longtime friend from Argentina who has been in a same-sex relationship for 19 years.
Good for him.
The Davis meeting was apparently one of those routine receiving-line things where folk walk past His Regalness for a handshake — which the Vatican now regards with “a sense of regret.”
Pope Francis’ meeting last week with an American woman at the center of a row over gay marriage was not something he had sought and should not be seen as an endorsement of her views, the Vatican said on Friday.
One Vatican official said there was “a sense of regret” that the pope had ever seen Kim Davis, a Kentucky county clerk who went to jail in September for refusing to honor a U.S. Supreme Court ruling and issue same-sex marriage licenses.
This is fun, don’t you think? Given all the misery that religion causes, it’s good their scrambling for P.R. advantage can occasionally provide some comic relief.
UPDATE: This story just gets better and better. Now, Vatican insiders are whispering that the person who set-up the Kim Davis visit will soon be sent packing.
According to a report published today by the New York Times, Vatican observers expect US Papal Nuncio Carlo Vigano to be removed at the “first respectable opportunity” for his “grave misstep” in secretly orchestrating the Pope’s meeting with Kim Davis.