text: Violet, not sure if I am being serious or not but I think there is a point to what I offer here. I take issue with your sentence: "The faction that controls the Church is at one end of the spectrum". 
  There is a psychosis of priesthood. Clergy, particularly the top-end, attempts to take itself outside, or even above, "the spectrum" of gender and they/it suffers the consequences - and- it is offed on the institution, the mission of Christ, on us.
  A tiny example: IF there were a Natural Law as they conceive and impose it, then a celibate priesthood is as intrinsically evil as is, they claim, homosexuality. If, natural law is really the intelligent reflection and reasoning that precedes from experience, perception, judgment of what is real as held in demonstration and consultation as normal then it includes acknowledgement of what is "outside the norm" to be as real as what is within.  Even in this scenario, celibacy and homosexuality are "outside the norm"- equally evil or equally not.