Gay, Catholic and Doing Fine

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The Church might as well be calling him Quasimodo, and making him live in the bell tower, but instead of being infuriated and indignant, the OP is grateful to this church for accepting him despite his "damaged" condition, and happy to forfeit his natural born right as a human to personal happiness of the fullest extent possible.  

This was somebody's self-worth, slowly and purposefully chipped away over many years, and he can't even see it.  Blind is right.  

Thank you very much for the kind words, but I'd like to focus on this passage in particular, because it made me realize something: is there a single other sin within christian doctrine that gets the kind of attention that homosexuality does?

So, we have a gay catholic living a life of celibacy, which is what the church suggests for gay people... and doesn't that right away strike you as strange? Isn't the christian position that everyone is fundamentally and unavoidably sinful, and that the only way to heaven is to accept Jesus as a sacrifice in recompense to those sins, that you do have and cannot avoid otherwise? Doesn't Catholicism specifically provide confessionals for the purpose of confessing and redressing sins somewhat?

So if the tenets of the church overall are that people will sin, there's nothing that can be done about that, and that the crucifixion is sufficient to erase those sins before god, and if the Catholic church specifically provides a method for dealing with those sins actively committed during the week, which is an implicit acknowledgement that their congregants are sinning, and if all sins are equal before god... why is it that homosexuality gets singled out for special attention, with this demand for celibacy? Couldn't a gay person with an active sex life accept Jesus, go to confession, and be on equal ground in terms of sins as every other christian?

Why do gays need to make extra special preparations to avoid sin, when it's treated as inevitable in every other case?