Stephen K. Amos

I expect him to say, oh, everyone's accepted.

But then he responded, I'm going to try and get this right.

It doesn't matter.

Not really.

This is quite a deep moment.

He said, it doesn't matter who you are or how you live your life.

We all have dignity.

There are people who prefer to put emphasis on the adjective gay rather than the noun man.

Those people who do that do not have a human heart.

Whoa.

That's awesome.

There's footage out there somewhere, and I've always said to myself, I don't want to be seen crying on TV, but it really got me at the right moment, and he didn't just fob me off.

No.

And I was so moved, and the people around me, they were all in tears because, as I said to you, it came at the right time in my life.

I'm not suddenly religious.

You know, there are many aspects of the Catholic Church that I have issues with, but it was comforting to hear that from the leader.

And I also thought, you know, how many millions of people around the world would give their right arm to have a private audience?

teaching in a way you know like well thank you because I did feel and it's not often I feel a sense of responsibility but I think one of the reasons why I initially said no was because I didn't want to be perceived as a man who's carrying the weight of all the other people and then just sit in front of this person and not say anything yeah

I had to say something.

And one of us also asked him a question about women's autonomy over their own bodies.