Francis is something else. One minute he's rubbing elbows with sodomites, the next he's making excuses for a country who certainly isn't friendly to homos. What a joke

That's a solid point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_China

Of course, this article here blames "The West", i.e. Christianity, for spreading the notion of ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖity as immoral and unaccepable.  That reminds me of a docuмentary I saw where the narrator was lamenting how the West had spoiled the great native culture of the Aztecs by "Christianizing" them.  So, presumably their practice of ripping people's hearts out in sacrifice to their gods on the orders of many tens of thousands per year was a noble heritage worth preserving and was spoiled by the horrible "intolerance" of Christianity.  Yes, Christians will not accept murder.  Guilty as charged.  This had been known as "civilizing" these people, and of course liberating them from Satan.