'the View' Co-host Sunny Hostin 'concerned' For Lgbtq Community With New Pope

"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin said she is "concerned" for nan LGBTQ+ organization aft seeing a resurfaced connection from nan caller pope.

Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected arsenic nan first American pope connected Thursday, taking nan sanction of Pope Leo XIV. He has been described arsenic a discuss campaigner betwixt nan much accepted and progressive factions of nan Roman Catholic Church, arsenic he has spoken successful favour of some doctrinal contented and support for workers and nan poor. While immoderate wide commentators person praised him, others person voiced skepticism astir really overmuch their beliefs whitethorn really align. 

"I’m a devout Catholic," Hostin claimed. "Look, I ever deliberation it’s exciting, to watch nan conclave and look for nan achromatic fume and nan achromatic fume and conscionable nan ceremonial of it and, you know, during these very trying times successful our country, we surely request belief leadership, because of immoderate of nan things that we’re experiencing. I’m a small concerned astir this prime for nan LGBTQ+ community."

"The View" co-host voiced her interest astir Pope Leo XIV, citing a past connection of his astir nan LGBTQ+ community.

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She went connected to quote a connection nan pope made successful 2012.

"In 2012 he gave an reside to bishops, and he lamented nan celebrated civilization fostered and ‘sympathy for beliefs and practices that are astatine likelihood pinch nan gospel,’ and that’s a quote, and past he cited nan ‘homosexual lifestyle’ and ‘alternative families comprised of same-sex partners and their adopted children,’" Hostin said.

The co-host past recalled nan precocious Pope Francis and said, "I deliberation that Pope Francis surely made awesome changes successful position of embracing nan LGBTQ+ organization and extending blessings to nan community, and I dream that this pope doesn’t rotation backmost the-"

Multiple co-hosts interjected, including Ana Navarro, who identified arsenic Catholic and emphasized nan day that he made nan statement.

"In 2012 location were moreover a batch of American politicians who coming are pro-gay matrimony and pro-equal authorities who were not, truthful maybe, you know, pinch nan weight of nan papacy and nan thought that-he conscionable said erstwhile he went retired connected nan pavilion that nan religion loves everyone and was inclusive successful his first connection truthful until we spot otherwise, I deliberation we request to believe and dream that he follows successful Francis' footsteps successful being inclusive, forgiving, compassionate, welcoming, and speaking up for nan marginalized," Navarro said.

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Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost of nan United States appears connected nan pavilion of St. Peter's Basilica, astatine nan Vatican, May 8, 2025. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane (REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane)

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Pope Leo besides antecedently warned against gender ideology arsenic well, reportedly declaring to a section news outlet, "The promotion of gender ideology is confusing, because it seeks to create genders that don’t exist."

While nan precocious Pope Francis is credited for extending an oliva branch to nan LGBTQ+ community, he besides warned that gender ideology is nan "ugliest danger" of our time.