text: I think that it needs to be addressed by revisiting the issue and admitting that it makes no sense at all to base Catholic teaching on an understanding of human beings that dates to the Middle Ages.  It's high time that the Church admitted that human sexuality is much more complex than was traditionally believed and that gay and transgender human beings are normal and deserve to be treated and seen as such.  I think that the Church's opposition to same-sex relationships needs to be abrogated.  Only then, will we be able to say that the Church respects LGBT people.