Thank your for the hope you bring that things are changing in the Catholic church.  If one bishops' conference can do this, can address the evil of bullying LGBT children, so can others.  And so, too, can we begin to incorporate new knowledge of humans and sexuality.   

I recently read two articles that have helped in providing a view of LGBt as "normal" in a religious/theological framework and the issue of religious "rights" and the laws of the republic that protect everyone's rights and liberties.  

The first is here:  http://jamesalison.co.uk/texts/eng59.html , written by James Alison, a Catholic priest/theologian.  Here are a few quotes: "...there is a regularly occurring, non-pathological minority variant in the human condition-which we call 'being gay'.  ...what we call being 'straight' or 'heterosexual' is not the normative human condition, but a majority human condition. ...it is not true that humans are intrinsically heterosexual."  Much more.

See comment 2.