'At long last, have you left no sense of decency?' | National Catholic Reporter

'At long last, have you left no sense of decency?' | National Catholic Reporterby MSW. MGB: So, in other words, the Church still condemns homosexuality, but tolerates friends they know who are gay? Half measures. The truth is, the whole "homosexuality is disordered" meme depends on there being a natural order as a real thing rather than an intellectual construct by the Curia and their supporters. It is this sophistry that we should stand up against, not the hyper-partisan actions of Lepanto and LifeSiteNews.

Modern science is pretty clear that people are born gay, just as they are born black. It is not enough to say you have gay friends or black friends. You must stand against bigotry on the wholesale as well as the retail level. Francis already had an audience with a gay married couple of his acquaintance when in the United States. That should be enough of a signal to stop resisting the bigotry of treating gay people as somehow lesser when forming voluntary familial relationships. Luckily, we have the families of gay marrieds to stand up to the likes of LifeSiteNews. That should be enough to move the Church in its pastoral role to start blessing such unions and telling Lepanto to shut the heck up.