{"id":74608,"date":"2019-11-16T11:01:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T11:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=74608"},"modified":"2019-11-16T11:01:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T11:01:50","slug":"pope-compares-politicians-who-rage-against-gays-to-hitler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/pope-compares-politicians-who-rage-against-gays-to-hitler\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope compares politicians who rage against gays to Hitler"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Pope Francis said on Friday politicians who rage against homosexuals, gypsies and Jews remind him of Hitler.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is not coincidental that at times there is a resurgence of symbols typical of Nazism,\u201d Francis said in an address to participants of an international conference on criminal law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd I must confess to you that when I hear a speech (by) someone responsible for order or for a government, I think of speeches by Hitler in 1934, 1936,\u201d he said, departing from his prepared address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith the persecution of Jews, gypsies, and people with homosexual tendencies, today these actions are typical (and) represent \u2018par excellence\u2019 a culture of waste and hate. That is what was done in those days and today it is happening again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Brazil, President Jair Bolsonaro had a history of making homophobic, racist and sexist public remarks before he took office on Janaury 1. He told one interviewer he would rather have a dead son than a gay son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In May, Brunei\u2019s Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah extended a moratorium on the death penalty to incoming legislation prohibiting gay sex, seeking to temper a global backlash led by celebrities such as George Clooney and Elton John.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United Nations had warned Brunei it would be violating human rights by implementing Islamic laws that would allow death by stoning for adultery and homosexuality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wednesday, in improvised remarks at his general audience, he said: \u201cToday the habit of persecuting Jews is beginning to be reborn. Brothers and sisters: this is neither human nor Christian; the Jews are our brothers and sisters and must not be persecuted! Understood?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, a Vatican cardinal said he was \u201cdisgusted\u201d by anti-Semitic abuse directed at an 89-year-old Italian senator and Holocaust survivor, who was given police protection after receiving death threats.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis said on Friday politicians who rage against homosexuals, gypsies and Jews remind him of Hitler. \u201cIt is not coincidental that at times there is a resurgence of symbols typical of Nazism,\u201d Francis said in an address to participants of an international conference on criminal law. \u201cAnd I must confess to you that when [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74610,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74608\/revisions\/74610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}