Day two at the USCCB meeting | National Catholic Reporter

Day two at the USCCB meeting | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: That the bishops continue to publicly use the term same sex attraction, which in their official view, is a temporarily disordered state rather than gay or homosexual, which is a permanent epigenetic condition deserving of deference and respect, is not news.  News would be the bishops inviting George and Brad Takei to Baltimore and solemnizing their marriage.  Maybe next year.  The sad thing is that the Supreme Court has made it very clear that George and Brad really do have a marriage and the Bishops cannot really cope.  As for immigration, there was never any chance that the bill at the Speaker's desk was ever going to pass. Ever.  When the real bill happens, it will be a lot less punitive - indeed, it should have been so friendly to migrants that it invited a filibuster by McConnell.  That it did not says something and it is why the Latino vote did not save the Democrat's bacon - which is of no concern at all to the Conference - especially the more conservative elements of it.  The Nuncio's talk used veiled language.  If he had equated teen suicide and the way the Church and parents treat gay teens coming out, that would have been just too direct and really would have made news - almost as much as George and Brad would have.