{"id":92666,"date":"2024-05-26T23:20:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T06:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=92666"},"modified":"2024-05-26T23:20:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T06:20:08","slug":"when-franny-met-norah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2024\/05\/26\/when-franny-met-norah\/","title":{"rendered":"When Franny Met Norah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pope Francis <\/strong>recently sat down with <strong><em>60 Minutes<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Let that sink in \u2013 the pope is doing primetime.&nbsp; Not only that, but he spoke to a female journalist.&nbsp; This ain\u2019t your parents\u2019 pope, that\u2019s for sure.&nbsp; During his chat with <strong>Norah O\u2019Donnell<\/strong>, she reminded him that he previously said, \u201cHomosexuality is not a crime.\u201d&nbsp; He agreed, adding, \u201cNo, it is a human condition.\u201d&nbsp; He also reiterated that while he was in favor of priests blessing people in same-sex marriages, he does not endorse priests blessing same-sex marriages \u2013 it\u2019s a fine line makes much more sense in Latin!&nbsp; He clarified his stance by saying, \u201cTo bless a homosexual-type union, however, goes against the given right, against the law of the church.&nbsp; But to bless each person?&nbsp; Why not?&nbsp; The blessing is for all.\u201d&nbsp; That pope \u2013 he\u2019s being awfully careful with his words.&nbsp; And that\u2019s because he doesn\u2019t want to be referred to as <em>The Late Pope<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\" alt=\"colorbar1\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On May 29<sup>th<\/sup>, <strong><em>Still Working 9 to 5<\/em><\/strong> will have a long-delayed Hollywood premiere at the <em>Renberg Theatre <\/em>at <em>The LGBT Center <\/em>and be presented under the aegis of the <strong><em>ERA Coalition Forward<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; This documentary shines a spotlight on the plight of women in the workplace at the time of the film <strong><em>9 to 5<\/em><\/strong>, as well as where things stand today with the long-gestating <em>Equal Rights Amendment<\/em>.&nbsp; The film was directed and produced by <strong>Camille Hardman <\/strong>and <strong>Gary Lane<\/strong> (who, with his brother <strong>Larry Lane<\/strong>, are the official twins of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>BillyMasters.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>).&nbsp; At the premiere, the <em>ERA Coalition Trailblazer Award <\/em>will be presented to stars <strong>Jane Fonda <\/strong>and <strong>Lily Tomlin <\/strong>in person \u2013 <strong>Dolly Parton <\/strong>will accept via video.&nbsp; Also expected to attend are <strong>Rosie O\u2019Donnell<\/strong>, <strong>Kathy Griffin<\/strong>, <strong>Alyssa Milano<\/strong>, <strong>Donna Mills<\/strong>, <strong>Maxine Waters <\/strong>and, oh yes, <strong>CHER<\/strong>!&nbsp; Get tix and details at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ERACoalition.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>ERACoalition.org<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis recently sat down with 60 Minutes.&nbsp; Let that sink in \u2013 the pope is doing primetime.&nbsp; Not only that, but he spoke to a female journalist.&nbsp; This ain\u2019t your parents\u2019 pope, that\u2019s for sure.&nbsp; During his chat with Norah O\u2019Donnell, she reminded him that he previously said, \u201cHomosexuality is not a crime.\u201d&nbsp; He<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92666","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\/92666","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=92666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92667,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92666\/revisions\/92667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}