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Pope Francis was blindsided by meeting with Kim Davis according to gay friend
The gay man who took his partner to meet Pope Francis last week believes the Pontiff was blindsided by his controversial meeting with Kim Davis.
‘Although I didn’t know any details, I knew immediately that (Pope Francis) had nothing to do with (the meeting), that this was arranged by other people without telling him the real character (of Davis),’ Yayo Grassi tells The Washington Post.
Grassi went public about his own meeting with the Pope – approved weeks in advance by the Pontiff himself – because of the severe backlash over the meeting with Davis, the Rowan County Clerk who was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
‘I received from friends of mine a lot of quite disturbing mail, telling me that ‘This is your pope, look what he did, and he’s a coward,’ and my defense is “We don’t know anything. Just wait until things come out.” And I’m extremely pleased that I was right. And I never had any doubt that I was right.’
The Vatican issued a statement Friday clarifying the brief Davis greeting saying she was one of ‘several dozen persons who had been invited by the Nunciature to greet him as he prepared to leave Washington for New York City.’
The only real audience granted by the Pope at the Nunciature was with Grassi who was a former student of his in Argentina in the 1960s.
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