Janus Rasmus

Who Am I to Judge? Janus Rasmus

Pope Francis' now-famous statement, "If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge?" emphasizes once again that gay people should not be harshly judged and marginalized by society. The substance of this essay is that the Bible also teaches indirectly this same message. The philosophy undergirding the Pope's views is firmly embedded in the principles of intentionality and the fairly universally recognized principle of probabilism. Offered here is a scholastic discourse in the tradition of Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Abelard, and the Jesuits.