Prominent, open homosexual serves as 'Lector' for Francis' Mass, thrilling 'LGBT' advocates

Huffingtonpost.com reports: Mo Rocca, an openly gay TV reporter and comic, played a starring role in Pope Francis’ Mass in New York City's Madison Square Garden Friday night, delighting LGBT rights advocates long critical of the Catholic Church's opposition to homosexuality. Rocca, a reporter for CBS Sunday Morning and former correspondent on The Daily Show, delivered the first, or Lector, Bible reading at the New York City Mass in Spanish. Rocca’s mother is Colombian...  Joe Sudbay, a veteran LGBT rights activist and writer, interpreted Rocca’s reading as a sign that Pope Francis has followed through on his rhetoric implying he would make the Church more welcoming to gays and lesbians. “Having openly gay @MoRocca do first reading at MSG seems to confirm” Rocca's argument that Francis' July 2013 statement expressing tolerance of gay people was “big,” Sudbay said on Twitter. In 2013, the pontiff famously said, “Who am I to judge a gay person of goodwill who seeks the Lord?”...