After initially bristling at the election of Pope Leo XIV because of his support for traditional marriage, purported “devout Catholic” and staunch racist Sunny Hostin announced that she changed her mind about the pope. She made it clear during the Monday edition of ABC’s The View that her sudden change in position was driven by the pope’s black ancestry, which she repeatedly praised: “we actually have a black pope!”
“I’m digging him. And the question I guess people are asking is do you think people will take his message to heart?” moderator Whoopi Goldberg wondered.
Hostin spoke up first with the intent to walk back her stern comments from Friday. “And I will say on Friday, I read some things about his sort of lack of inclusion with the LGBTQ+ community…He was interviewed in 2023 and he had completely changed that position as…
