{"id":1352,"date":"2015-10-04T19:24:47","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T02:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2015-10-04T19:24:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T02:24:47","slug":"gay-couple-get-popes-only-private-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2015\/10\/04\/gay-couple-get-popes-only-private-audience\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay Couple Get Pope&#8217;s Only Private Audience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the brouhaha about the <strong>Pope<\/strong>&#8216;s brief meeting with <strong>Kim Davis<\/strong>, another story kinda got lost in the shuffle.\u00a0 The only person who had a private audience with <strong>Pope Francis <\/strong>was a gay man &#8211; who brought his partner.\u00a0 <strong>Yayo Grassi<\/strong>, an openly gay Argentine, is a former student of the pontiff.\u00a0 Back in 1964, Francis taught literature and psychology at a high school in Santa Fe, Argentina.\u00a0 Grassi was one of his students.\u00a0 According to Yayo, &#8220;Three weeks before the trip, he called me on the phone and said he would love to give me a hug.&#8221;\u00a0 Not only did he hug Grassi, but a photo shows the Pope hugging Grassi&#8217;s partner of 19 years, <strong>Iwan Bagus<\/strong>.\u00a0 Yayo shared another anecdote.\u00a0 In 2010, he read that the then-<strong>Cardinal Bergoglio <\/strong>had publicly condemned legalization of same-sex marriage.\u00a0 Yayo wrote a long letter to the cardinal expressing disappointment.\u00a0 He got an e-mail back, apologizing for the tone of the comments published (which he said were taken out of context), and adding, &#8220;I want you to know that in my work there is absolutely no place for homophobia&#8221;.\u00a0 See?\u00a0 Not everything is black and white.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the brouhaha about the Pope&#8216;s brief meeting with Kim Davis, another story kinda got lost in the shuffle.\u00a0 The only person who had a private audience with Pope Francis was a gay man &#8211; who brought his partner.\u00a0 Yayo Grassi, an openly gay Argentine, is a former student of the pontiff.\u00a0 Back in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1353,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions\/1353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}