Rach said:
What I am talking about here is that many Protestant denominations have made it 'legal' for homosexuals to have a place within the church...even teaching...even as they practice a lifestyle that the bible condemns. The Catholic church, thus far, has denied the legitimacy of this...and I do hope they continue to. And I can only pray that so many of the churches that have welcomed people living in open sin...indeed even given them a platform to teach and justify such sins, will be convicted of their mistake. It's a slippery slope.
The Church will never change it's standing on anything. You can see it just by witnessing things like this: In the 19th century, the pope issued a papal bull declaring all sacraments of the Church of England null and void. In more recent times, now that the CoE has laxed it's view on homosexuality (among other things), Pope Benedict empathized with Anglicans who did not like what their bishops were doing and offered, essentially, free use of non-sacramental English tradition with Roman conversion.
In other words, the pope pretty much declared that the Church of England is annulled, but you all can take it's former place before the 2nd Schism.
In that, you see how the Church simply doesn't change. The rest of the world changes, other churches change, but right there you see 150 years later after that papal bull, the Church is still the same as ever.
Pretty much, the good thing about Roman Catholcism is the consistancy. Heck, witnessing the sacraments in mass is like warping back to the middle ages. The Church really just doesn't change.
Looking at homosexuality and pedophilia, the Church has assumed a link between the two. Sort of in the same way of the link between homosexuality and AIDS- these things are not exclusive to homosexuals, but far more common collectively among them.
The majority of victims by priests are male, and while the ratio of girl/boy victims are 2:1, any given homosexual is much more likely to commit pedophilia then any given heterosexual.
With AIDS, homosexuals, who make up only a few percent of the population, make up about 60% of all known AIDS victoms collectively.
The Church sees these links, and expounds on these things to show why thomosexuality is detestable. It's central belief of homosexuality, literally, is that it is 'contrary to nature'. That is to say, it's not something someone is born with, and is a primal deviance.
If anybody is strongest in the paint of anti-homosexuality, it is the Church. And they do it correctly to: they'll pay for a campaign teaching against homosexuality while giving venial blessings to homosexual crowds outside of parishes and such. They do not hate, they rebuke the sin.