text: Michael, I agree with your comments. It is an enlightened approach which some people will not accept because it is in variation with what the Church teaches which is based on 2000-year-old concepts of human behavior.  It does not occur to people with this mindset that homosexuality is not a personal choice any more than heterosexuality is.  If a person truly has a homosexual orientation is it moral or ethical to expect that they should never have a loving intimate relationship with another human being? I don't think so, and it seems that more and more thinking & moral people are coming to this conclusion. The Church has not yet synchronized morality with normative human behavior as we have come to understand it through modern science and psychology.  What we need now is a scholar like Thomas Aquinas, who brought theology out of the dark ages and aligned it with Aristotle’s philosophy. It's time for another theological leap forward to align it with what modern understanding now offers.