The Pope allows “blessings” of gay couples but strictly outside of the contexts of anything resembling a marriage and actively opposes actual sanctification of a same sex or transgender marriage. I won’t argue it’s better than their kick in the face policy they used to have but that kernel of homophobia where they are treated as an illegitimate form of family unit is still alive and well and low key still impacting the worlwide fight to end the precarity around civil same sex unions.

Fighting between “they should be kicked in the teeth” and "they should be shut out in the cold but with a kind word to speed them on their way " is still an everybody the asshole situation.

I would personally love if they decided to ditch the Pauline chapters as their key guiding principles and stop listening to the jerk who canonically hallucinated Jesus after being hit in the head with a rock. Like… When most of your contradictions of Jesus’s teachings are from one guy with that particular pedigree maybe give it less weight?