Said the Pope, according to the AP<\/a>: \u201cThere have always been gay<\/a> people and people with homosexual tendencies\u2026Don\u2019t condemn. Dialogue. Understand, give the child space so he or she can express themselves\u2026Ignoring child with this tendency shows a lack of motherhood and fatherhood\u2026.This child has the right to a family. And the family not throwing him out.\u201d<\/p>\n The Pope is visiting Ireland on the first papal visit there since 1979, and the country now has a gay<\/a> prime minister, Leo Varadkar.<\/p>\n The Washington Post reports<\/a>: \u2018In an interview with RTE news Friday<\/a>, Varadkar said he hoped to talk to the pope about issues including clerical sex<\/a> abuse and the exclusion of the LGBT community from the church. Varadkar had a brief meeting with the pope following his more public remarks Saturday. His spokesman\u00a0told the Irish Times<\/a>\u00a0that he \u201csaid to the pope that there are huge numbers of people here who have faith in their heart but who feel excluded and alienated from the church because of what happened.\u201d240<\/p>\n The post Pope Francis: Gay Children \u2018Have the Right to a Family, and the Family Not Throwing Them Out\u2019<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad Gay News<\/a>.<\/p>\n