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LGBT, Religion

POPE FRANCIS MET IN PRIVATE WITH GAY COUPLE, NOT WITH KIM DAVIS

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Same-sex partners Yayo Grassi, left, and Iwan Bagus, meeting with Pope Francis in Washington, D.C. (Screen capture/NYT)

THE VATICAN, Italy (The Adobo Chronicles®) – Pope Francis gave his blessing to Kim Davis during a brief meeting at The Vatican embassy in Washington, D.C. last week.  But now, the Pope is taking back that blessing because Davis and her lawyers lied about the brief encounter.

Davis, the Rowan (KY) county clerk who spent  jail time for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, was telling everybody that she had a “private audience” with Francis who thanked her for  her “courage” and to “stay strong,” suggesting that the Pope had endorsed her defiance of civil law because of her religious belief.

While The Vatican confirmed the meeting between the Pope and Davis, it clarified that it was far from being a “private audience.”  Davis was just among the many individuals that were hustled in and out to greet the Pope during his downtime at the embassy.

The Vatican said that the Pope didn’t even know who Davis was.

But a real “private audience” happened the day before Davis met the Pope.

It was a pre-arranged meeting with the Pope’s longtime friend from Argentina who has been in a same-sex relationship for 19 years.

Yayo Grassi, an openly gay man, brought his partner, Iwan Bagus, as well several other friends to the Vatican Embassy on September 23 for a brief visit with the Pope. A video of the meeting shows Grassi and Francis greeting each other with a warm hug.

In an exclusive interview with CNN, Grassi declined to disclose details about the short visit, but said it was arranged personally with the Pope via email in the weeks ahead of Francis’ highly anticipated visit to the United States.

“Three weeks before the trip, he called me on the phone and said he would love to give me a hug,” Grassi said.

So, while the Pope wasn’t endorsing same-sex relationships by meeting with his gay friend, neither was he endorsing  Davis’ opposition to same-sex marriage just because of that brief, almost anonymous encounter.

Now, Davis has to go to confession to ask pardon for lying about her encounter with the Pope!

LGBT, Politics

MIKE HUCKABEE CHIPS AWAY AT DONALD TRUMP’S MEDIA MONOPOLY

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Huckabee, left, and the rainbow Doritos chips
Huckabee, left, and the rainbow Doritos chips

WASHINGTON, D.C.  (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – Donald Trump launched his bid for the Republican  presidential nomination by waging war against Mexicans and immigrants and it has paid off for him and his campaign. He continues to surge as the frontrunner in the polls, way ahead of his GOP co-candidates.

Mike Huckabee is fast catching on, however, and may finally be chipping away on Trump’s monopoly on media coverage.

First, Huckabee jumped on the national controversy regarding Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis who was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, in violation of a court order.  Upon her release from county prison, Huckabee stood by Davis’ side and proclaimed that the courts and others are engaged in an attack against Christian values.

Now, Huckabee is attacking Doritos, makers of tortilla and other kinds of chips, and he is getting the media attention he has been seeking.

After Frito-Lay this month said it would mail rainbow-colored Doritos chips to consumers who donate money to the It Gets Better Project, a nonprofit helping the  LGBT community, Huckabee went on the offensive against the snack-maker.

In a letter sent to Frito-Lay on Tuesday, Huckabee said Dan Savage, the man behind the group benefiting from the bags, has for years made “very hateful and vulgar comments toward Christians” and called “for violence and injury to people he disagrees with.”

The letter follows one he sent four days earlier in which Huckabee first asked Frito-Lay to stop raising money for Savage’s project.  The chip maker has not responded to either letter.

So far, the only apparent response Huckabee was getting was news that Doritos has sold out all of its rainbow-colored chips and has a long back-order list that it is trying to fulfill.

(There is also some unconfirmed news that the state of California is in short supply of avocados, the main ingredient in guacamole which goes perrfectly with Dorito chips.)

It is a win for Doritos and the LGBT community, but it is a loss for Trump who is on the losing end of Huckabee’s media-grabbing antics.

Is this the beginning of the end for Trump?

Film and TV, LGBT, Music

LEAKED: WHY SAM SMITH WAS CHOSEN TO WRITE AND RECORD NEW JAMES BOND FILM THEME SONG

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Craig, left, and Smith
Craig, left, and Smith

LONDON, U.K.  (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – Openly-gay British singer Sam Smith announced he has recorded the theme to the new James Bond flick, “Spectre.”

“This is one of the highlights of my career,” the Grammy Award-winning Smith tweeted Tuesday. “I am honoured to finally announce that I will be singing the next Bond theme song.”

The song, called “Writing’s on the Wall,” will be released September 25. The movie comes out October 26 in the United Kingdom and November 6 in the United States.

Speaking of ‘coming out,’ the reason Smith was chosen to compose and record the theme song is because the latest Agent 007, played by Daniel Craig, turns out to be a closeted gay man.  It is not until the end of the film that he comes out of the closet.

None of the film’s characters suspected that Bond was gay, despite the writings on the wall.