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Pope Francis told a group of parents of L.G.B.T. children yesterday that “God loves your children as they are” and “the church loves your children as they are because they are children of God.”

Having listened carefully to what she said, Pope Francis reassured her, “The church does not exclude them because she loves them deeply.”.

She said the pope, in response, assured her and the other parents present that “God loves our children because they are all children of God.” »

FILE - In this July 31, 2014, file photo, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is seen in her chambers in at the Supreme Court in Washington.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg , a towering women’s rights champion who became the court’s second female justice, died Friday at her home in Washington.

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said late Friday that the Senate will vote on Trump’s pick to replace Ginsburg, even though it’s an election year. »

Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president," Schumer said in a tweet.

Schumer's tweet comes less than an hour after news broke that Ginsburg had died Friday at 87, throwing a landmine into an already chaotic presidential election year.

With a 53-47 majority, McConnell could lose three GOP senators and still let Vice President Pence break a tie. »