Catholic Church and Homosexuality

The Boston Globe reports today that St. Cecelia's Catholic Church in Boston has rescheduled to July 10 an "All Are Welcome" Mass celebrating "Gay Pride Month", following objections to an earlier-scheduled Mass from "conservative" Catholics:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/06/20/mass_to_mark_gay_pride_month_is_rescheduled/

Why is it that anytime the topic of homosexuality and the Catholic Church is taken up by the Globe, I always feel as though I am swimming in the shallow end of the intellectual pool?

Is it because the all-gay, all-the-time, vertically integrated (from reporters to editors) homo-promo bias of this newspaper requires a bete noire and allows no opportunity for nuanced truth, the signature of Catholic teaching?

As an antidote to Globe reportage, I commend to all the thoughtful, well-articulated, 7:41 AM post of aidan01 (nice work, aidan01, as usual).

I would only add my wish that all combatants in this theater of the cultural wars (especially those honest partisans on the Left who blindly assail the RCC) take the time to familiarize themselves with the metaphysically rich and compassionate teachings of the Church on the subject of homosexuality, so wisely and clearly presented in the Catechism of the Catholic Church referred to in aidan01’s post.

You will not find in them affirmation of the homosexual lifestyle, anymore than you will find justification for any other disordered lifestyle. You will find something greater and more sublime. You will find:

That the Catholic Church is not a mausoleum for saints, but rather a hospital for sinners, and that we are all wounded;

That Catholic moral analysis always recognizes that truth and charity are each important virtues, and that the one should never act as an impediment to the other;

That Catholic moral analysis differentiates between the act and the person, shining the light of truth on the former, while never judging the latter;

That Catholic moral analysis proceeds from the fact that if the only person on earth had been homosexual, Christ would have shed the last drop of His blood for that person; from which it follows

That while the Church canonizes saints, it never anathematizes sinners, believing that Christ in His great mercy will always play the last card on every person.

Hate that if you must. But at least be clear on what you are hating.