Anti-LGBTQ, anti-democratic, and abusive Facebook posts by Pope Leo XIV’s brother resurface, spark backlash

The member of recently elected Pope Leo XIV is facing backlash implicit a bid of violative Facebook posts, drafting planetary attraction to the household ties of the Roman Catholic Church’s archetypal US-born pope, reports the Guardian. Louis Martin “Lou” Prevost, the oldest of the 3 Prevost brothers, has sparked contention aft societal media users and journalists uncovered respective inflammatory posts made nether his name. While his member Pope Leo XIV (born Robert Prevost) is seen arsenic calm and open-minded, Lou’s Facebook posts amusement beardown enactment for far-right politics.According to the Guardian, 1 of Lou’s astir talked-about posts shared a video that called Democratic congresswoman Nancy Pelosi a “drunk c**t”.In different post, helium wrote: “Barack Obama and the Democratic enactment agelong for the full demolition of our mode of beingness and turning this state into a dictatorship, and a racist 1 connected apical of it.”He besides called for the apprehension of Democratic politicians who met Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, pursuing Zelenskyy’s Oval Office speech with Donald Trump. Lou wrote that they should look “charges of treason”.Another station shared an anti-LGBTQ+ meme that read: “Your kid isn’t trans – yo...