Pope says supports civil unions for gay couples

Pope Francis defended the right of gay couples to enter into legally recognised civil unions in a documentary that premiered at the Rome Film Festival on Wednesday. In the film, “Francesco” by Evgeny Afineevsky, the Argentine pope says that gays have “the right to be in a family.” “These are children of God, they have the right to a family,” Francis says in the film, speaking in Spanish. “What we have to create is a law of civil union, they have…