Cardinal Dolan: The Catholic church isn't anti-gay

[Esquilax]

It has nothing to do with hating gays.

The Catholic church won't accept gay marriage because they can't procreate.

So they also don't accept infertile marriage? Celibate marriages? Older couples marrying? Those things aren't accepted by your church either, right? I mean, you wouldn't want to be inconsistent and reveal the fundamental dishonesty at the heart of that statement, would you?

According to the church, its [not] a sin to be gay. It's a sin to [act] gay.

How magnanimous.

It's not natural. PERIOD

That's a lie, according to actual biological facts, and no amount of all caps forceful declarations will suddenly make it true.

And teaching our children that it is?

You know what else isn't natural? Wearing clothes, spectacles, jewelry, standardized education and, most importantly, being Catholic. Still up for only educating on what's natural?

Case-in-point: I have 2 friends that watched their daughters struggle in their adolescense with "gay feelings". And because they had gay family members, the teens were "nudged". Both teens have since gone back to their natural genders, and are dating men. Unfortunately one of them had reconstructive surgery.

This is happening more and more in our society! Young people are being "pushed" into major decisions, for what might "have been" just a bump in the road! Its wrong!

I wonder, would it have been wrong if some devout catholic adults had "nudged" some gay teens toward being straight? Or it is only wrong if this nudging happens in a direction you disagree with?